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Hello,
when I run the "package installation" on several selected machines, some return this error message:
"Host target UUID is not matching your request."
What does this error mean?
And what should I do to fix it?
Do I need to go back to all the affected machines to perform a procedure?
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Clément.

Okay, so I'll answer my own question then.

Indeed, WAPT uses motherboard UUIDs to list PCs on the network, but quite a few motherboards (Gigabyte in particular) have identical UUIDs and therefore cause a bit of a mess in WAPT (and that's putting it mildly).
To fix this, you need to create a new UUID that will be stored both locally and on the server so that WAPT can find the machine.
You therefore need to access the machine in question or take control of it to run this command:

`c:\wapt\waptpython -c "import common,uuid; wapt = common.Wapt(); print 'Old UUID: %s' % wapt.host_uuid; wapt.host_uuid='%s' % uuid.uuid4(); print 'New UUID: %s' % wapt.host_uuid;print wapt.update_server_status()"`

The new generated UUID will allow the PC to be visible at all times on the WAPT console and no longer only randomly depending on which other machines are running.

Have a good day.