The customer reported that after the deployment of computers, the Symantec Management Agent (SMA aka Altiris Agent) service is being disabled.
The customer says that after the client machine is done re-imaging, he has to go to services and change the service from Disabled to Automatic (Delayed Start).
While looking at DSTasks.log, we see:
[2022/03/31 10:48:50.220 1344:752 INFO] Deploy Image Task: Starting application 'X:\Program Files\Symantec\Deployment\Ghost\GhRegEdit64.exe' with command-line ' addvalue C:\Windows "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001\Services\AeXNSClient" "Start" REG_DWORD 4' in 'x:\program files\Symantec\Deployment'
then
[2022/03/31 10:48:50.613 1344:752 <TRC>] Deploy Image Task: Read production OS registry value 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\ControlSet001\Services\AeXNSClient\Start': dword:00000004
[2022/03/31 10:48:50.613 1344:752 INFO] Deploy Image Task: AeXNSAgent.exe location found: C:Program Files\Altiris\Altiris Agent
which the code means:
dword:00000001=boot
dword:00000002=automatic
dword:00000003=manual
dword:00000004=disabled
ITMS 8.5, 8.6
DSAgent plug-in (Deployment Plug-in for Windows) was not installed on the client machine where the image was taken from.
DSTasks.log looks fine. That 00000004 is correct - means the disabled service state.
There was something in their environment or process that leads to missing DSAgent plug-in and ConfgiService.exe on the machine.
If there is no DSAgent plug-in, then there is no ConfigService.exe in the image.
What's happening after the image restore is:
Then machine reboot should follow and the following thins should occur during the boot:
Install DSAgent plugin on the machine where the image is taken from:
1. Go to Settings>All Settings>Agent/Plug-ins>Deployment>Windows(x64) and either enable or target this plug-in to the machine that you are using to capture your image.
2. and after the DSAgent plug-in is installed then capture the image again and see if the issue persists or not.
Note:
The following is provided as a guidance on what to consider while troubleshooting an issue like this:
ConfigService install
and Try starting the service:
net start configservice
Check if ConfigService.log created. There should be a failure at some step.