Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

Hello,

We are running SMP 7.1 SP 2 MR 1 (I think 1.1..head hurts) with rollup 8.   Because of the rollup, a new client has to be pushed out and we are overwhelming either a package server that covers a region or the notification server.  Short of rebooting the server after disabling the policy, is there a way to stop the active connections to a package server?  Since the package server lists a URL and UNC path, so I assume we would have to kill both kind of connections.  I tried restarting/stopping IIS and killing the Altiris services does not stop it.   Any thoughts on how I can just cut communications and let the software delivery just fail?

Thanks,

Jamie

If you want to stop clients from downloading packages, you will need to disable the respective policy/task, have the clients update their config, and then restart their sma service. It would be nice if there was an emergency stop command you could send out that would simply tell the sma to cutoff the download, but there isnt. If you want to stop ps's from downloading a package, you will need to remove the ps assignment from the package, have the ps update its config, and then restart its sma service.

Thank you SK.   I was also thinking maybe put the firewall on the ports found in these forms as a the emergency stop action.   So far, we have not run in to it or people are getting used to us killing the network.

You need to cut UNC connections as well, this could be done by stopping "Server" service. Not sure what kind of functionality you still need to be running on that machine but stopping the "Server" will definitely cut UNC cponnections.