Disabling patch remediation settings schedule breaks PMimport page

Products

• Client Management Suite
• IT Management Suite
• Patch Management Solution

Issue/Introduction

Disabling the patch remediation settings schedule breaks the PMImport page.

After disabling CentOS Patch Remediation Settings schedule the Shared Schedule page generates an error and the PMImport page can no longer be opened.

Steps to repro:

 

Reopening the shared schedule page:

 

MetaData Import task page after the change:

 

Environment

ITMS 8.6 RU2

Cause

Known issue

Resolution

This issue is fixed ITMS 8.6 RU3.

Workaround:

Run the below command in a command prompt as an administrator to re-configure the PatchManagment config files.

"c:\Program Files\Altiris\Notification Server\Bin\AeXConfig.exe" /configure "c:\Program Files\Altiris\Patch Management\Linux\Config\PatchManagementLinux.config"

OR

Re-import problematic item (vendor policy) again. For example c88a8405-c513-4f4f-9c36-02f500fc26e9 for CentOS