Patch Management Solution

Hi,

Got NS 7.1 and node count is around 7000. I suspect how patch is setup may be causing by Task Cleanup job to be "running on demand" a little more often then desired. It is running twice a day every day as opposed to once a day

The Windows System Assement scan is set on 24x7 schedule and runs every 8 hours. Previously it was set by last admin to be on 24x7 schedule running every 12 hours.

The Software Update Plug-in policy is also on a 24x7 schedule and now set to run every 4 hours. Previously it was set by last admin to be on 9a-5p schedule. Can't remember the frequency it would run.

The Windows Patch Remediation settings is on a 24x7 schedule and now set to run every 4 hours. Previously it was set by last admin to be on 24x7 schedule running every 6 hours.

Suggestions for tweaking this would be greatly appreciated.

Is the Cleanup Task Data "Maximum number of working database rows" set to 1,000,000?

You may need to do a one-off cleanup if the task isn't ever catching up with itself:

"Taskinstances table growing rapidly"

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH144662

And:

"Can't see task details after a failed run, "This task run has been deleted and cannot be vieweded or re-run. Only summary data exists - create new task"

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH180203

It is set to 500,000 and for as long as I can recall it was never set higher. I can see the task details for each job. I am thinking there might be another SMS policy that has clients checking in too frequently.