Package Servers download packages from the Notification Server only

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

 Where is the setting in ITMS 8.x to allow Package Servers to only download packages from the Notification Server?

Environment

ITMS 8.x

Resolution

A registry setting, PkgSvrDownloadFromNSOnly, has been added to the coresettings.config file. It replaces the Package Servers download packages from the Notification Server only option that was on the Status tab of the Package Servers page in older versions of ITMS, which was removed. The PkgSvrDownloadFromNSOnly setting is set to 0 (disabled), by default, allowing Package Servers to download from other Package Servers and the Notification Server.

When set to 1 (enabled) the following applies:

• When there are no Sites defined – Package Servers will only download from the NS.
• When Sites have been defined - Even if the core setting is enabled the Package Servers will continue to download from other packages servers within its own site as well as the NS.

When properly configured to allow unconstrained Package Servers to download packages only from the Notification Server, the CoreSetting.config file will contain the following entry:

<customSetting key="PkgSvrDownloadFromNSOnly" type="registry" regKey="Notification Server" regValue="PkgSvrDownloadFromNSOnly" defaultValue="1" regValueType="DWORD" />

The registry will also contain the following REG_DWORD key (value set to 1):

HKLM\Software\Altiris\eXpress\Notification Server\PkgSvrDownloadFromNSOnly

The PkgSvrDownloadFromNSOnly setting can be setting with either of the following options:

• Core Settings (preferred option) and this is found under: SMP Console > Settings > Notification Server > Core Settings

• NSConfigurator.exe - found in Windows Explorer under C:\Program Files\Altiris\Notification Server\Bin\Tools\