Only when you are in a hurry do things not work as expected. Especially when things were previously working.  All of the sudden the Notification Server 6.0.6074 - R9, with Patch Management 6.2 Sp1 could not automatically access the internet to download the latest PMImport cab files.

 
While attempting to run a report for local administrator password access from Local Security Solution 6.1 (LSS),  the report, for some of the client machines, rather than referencing a computer/username, displayed "User RID 500" instead. Who is he? :)

While recently working a Recovery Solution issue, we encountered some problems.  The clients could not register and SSM jobs were not completing.  Upon reviewing the Event Viewer logs, we saw a consistent sequence of errors

Following a recent Patch Tuesday run, some client machines that met the criteria for some patch applications, attempted to run the installation of certain patches - and received a client-side status messages in the Altiris Agent of "Run Failed" or 'Failed to Start" and exit codes of either 87 or -2147942402.   With much consternation, lots of ideas were tossed

In researching Altiris Agent logs recently, some new entries appeared. These were classed as informational entries, and were related to the Client Task Agent. Some examples are shown in the screenshot below.

Recently, it was discovered on a large number of server class machines that the Altiris Agent was displaying the following error: