Assessment Scan failing with: CWin32Exception at RegistryKey.cpp:45

Products

• Patch Management Solution
• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

Patch assessment fails with errors in STPatchAssessment.log:

2024-07-31T23:35:46.8711960Z 1688 E GuardBoundary.h:64 patchScanEngine::CScanner2::CScanner2InterfaceImpl::Scan Win32 error: class STWin32::CWin32Exception at RegistryKey.cpp:45: EnableConnectionRateLimiting: Error 234: More data is available.

2024-07-31T23:35:47.0895697Z 1688 E WorkItemQueue.cpp:62 Failed to wait for the Queue Manager thread to terminate. Error: 0.

 

Environment

Patch Management 8.7

Cause

EnableConnectionRateLimiting regkey under "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters]" has wrong datatype QWORD

Resolution

Change datatype to DWORD for EnableConnectionRateLimiting regkey.