PXE menu doesn't contain any preboot options other than 'next device'
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PXE menu doesn't contain any preboot options other than 'next device'

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Article ID: 173530

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Issue/Introduction

When a customer sends a boot to pxe task or manually boots the client into automation and presses F8,  'Next device' is the only preboot option displayed.

The error below is shown in the 'sbslog_pxe.txt' file.

Tue Jan 29 15:51:46 2019  9300     SbsHttpClient.cpp              Sbs::SbsHttpClient::OperationDone                  133        Error    NS response parse failure, bytes read 1431, 'HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE8
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:51:45 GMT
Content-Length: 1233

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body{margin:0;font-size:.7em;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:#EEEEEE;}
fieldset{padding:0 15px 10px 15px;} 
h1{font-size:2.4em;margin:0;color:#FFF;}
h2{font-size:1.7em;margin:0;color:#CC0000;} 
h3{font-size:1.2em;margin:10px 0 0 0;color:#000000;} 
#header{width:96%;margin:0 0 0 0;padding:6px 2% 6px 2%;font-family:"trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;color:#FFF;
background-color:#555555;}
#content{margin:0 0 0 2%;position:relative;}
.content-container{background:#FFF;width:96%;margin-top:8px;padding:10px;position:relative;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
<div id="content">
 <div class="content-container"><fieldset>
  <h2>403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.</h2>
  <h3>You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.</h3>
 </fieldset></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
'

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sbslog_pxe.txt has also been observed to contain this:

GET /altiris/Deployment/Services/GetPXEBootInfo.aspx?xml=<request><GetPXEBootInfo><UniqueID>2052434E-0000-0000-0000-020058857515</UniqueID><MacAddress>client mac address shown here</MacAddress><SerialNumber></SerialNumber><IPAddress>client IP shown here</IPAddress></GetPXEBootInfo></request> HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: Symantec NBS
Host: SMPfqdn
Connection: Keep-Alive


Fri Apr 15 08:29:59 2022  12628    SbsHttpClient.cpp              Sbs::SbsHttpClient::SendRequest                    62         Debug    Socket connection not open. Calling TcpSocket::Create() and AioBind()
Fri Apr 15 08:29:59 2022  12628    SbsHttpClient.cpp              Sbs::SbsHttpClient::SendRequest                    64         Debug    TcpSocket::Create() returned a result of :0
Fri Apr 15 08:29:59 2022  12628    SbsHttpClient.cpp              Sbs::SbsHttpClient::SendRequest                    68         Debug    AioBind() returned a result of :0
Fri Apr 15 08:29:59 2022  12628    SbsHttpClient.cpp              Sbs::SbsHttpClient::SendRequest                    73         Debug    BeginConnect() returned a result of :0
Fri Apr 15 08:29:59 2022  12628    SbsHttpClient.cpp              Sbs::SbsHttpClient::SendRequest                    90         Debug    Exiting SendRequest with a result of :0
Fri Apr 15 08:29:59 2022  12628    SbsHttpRequestHandler.cpp      Sbs::SbsHttpRequestHandler::ProcessRequest         103        Debug    Send Request completed with return code of:0 on retry #1
Fri Apr 15 08:30:05 2022  12628    SbsHttpClient.cpp              Sbs::SbsHttpClient::Error                          271        Error    Error received for operation 2, errorcode: 121
Fri Apr 15 08:30:05 2022  12628    SbsPxeInterface.cpp            Sbs::SbsPxeInterface::OperationDone                82         Debug    Function called
Fri Apr 15 08:30:05 2022  12628    SbsPxeInterface.cpp            Sbs::SbsPxeInterface::SendPxeResponse              462        Debug    Function called
Fri Apr 15 08:30:05 2022  7548     SbsPxeInterface.cpp            Sbs::SbsPxeInterface::OperationDone                82         Debug    Function called
Fri Apr 15 08:30:05 2022  7548     SbsPxeInterface.cpp            Sbs::SbsPxeInterface::SendDone                     750        Debug    Function called
Fri Apr 15 08:30:08 2022  7548     SbsHttpClient.cpp              Sbs::SbsHttpClient::Error                          271        Error    Error received for operation 2, errorcode: 121

Environment

DS 7.x, 8.x

Cause

This issue was caused because the SBSServer was trying to connect to the NS server over port 80 but the NS was communicating over port 443.  

When the Symantec Installation Manager installs the product for the first time it sets values in the registry for the port that NS should use and whether or not communication over SSL is required.

 

This is set using the following registry keys on the SMP/Notification server:

Port: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Altiris\AIM\Configuration\Nsconfiguration\NSWebSitePort

Use SSL: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Altiris\AIM\Configuration\Nsconfiguration

 

In most situations, these values get to set '80' and 'False' respectively when customers do an initial installation of the SMP without specifying HTTPS. When customers decide to use HTTPS they make the changes through the management console.  The registry keys noted above DO NOT GET changed.

 

Because these keys are not changed after migrating to HTTPS the SBS server reads these values and communicates over HTTP causing communication to fail.

 

Note: Restarting SIM may cause the registry values to be changed back to port 80 and false after being changed.. This has not been 100% verified.

 

 

 

Resolution

On the NS:

  1. Open the registry using regedit
  2. Change the registry keys to use the port and SSL settings desired

For HTTPS support:

Port: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Altiris\AIM\Configuration\Nsconfiguration\NSWebSitePort : set to 443

Use SSL: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Altiris\AIM\Configuration\Nsconfiguration:  set to True

      3. Open NBS General Settings through the management console and make any change.

      4. The SBS server will update its configuration and the communication methods will be updated in the sbsconfiguration.xml file.