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  • 1.  Staging Patch Management Bulletins

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 01:57 PM
    I am cutting over to Altiris Patch Management to deliver all my client MS Patches but I keep running into one nagging issue with preparing the patches. From time to time a get the following message: "Software Bulletin MS*** is not ready for distribution. Please ensure that this Software Bulletin is Staged before creating a Software Update Task" when trying to use the task wizard. And once I get this message for a bulletin there is no way I can use the wizard to setup a task. The bulletin is staged (an re-staged and un-staged and re-staged and deleted and recreated all to no avail.) What am I doing wrong?


  • 2.  RE: Staging Patch Management Bulletins

    Posted Aug 11, 2009 05:54 PM
    Any solutions to this? I am experiencing the same issue on one of our NS servers.


  • 3.  RE: Staging Patch Management Bulletins

    Posted Aug 11, 2009 07:02 PM
    Have you performed the steps that phillyfish mentioned? Do the number of updates = the # of downloads?


  • 4.  RE: Staging Patch Management Bulletins

    Posted Aug 12, 2009 09:50 AM
    The Patch is staged, I have the same issue in a staged patch gives an error of "the software bulletin is not ready for distribution" when trying to access teh wizard to create the patch Task.


  • 5.  RE: Staging Patch Management Bulletins

    Posted Aug 12, 2009 02:26 PM

    Go to http://kb.altiris.com and search for 'not ready for distribution'  - you will see multiple KB articles that address this issue.



  • 6.  RE: Staging Patch Management Bulletins

    Posted Mar 11, 2010 09:33 AM
    Here's the steps to follow from the KB article. Also make sure the latest SP is loaded.

    Go to the Manage Software Updates Page. Highlight the failing update. Right-click and select Disable from the drop down. Then right-click and select Stage from the dropdown. Doing this will invoke the code that will ensure the updates are ready for distribution. 

     

    If you still receive this message even after working through this issue, then something is failing during the re-create process and the Altiris Notification Server logs should contain additional information. On the NS Server, go to Start/Programs/Altiris/Diagnostics/Log Viewer, and open the logs. Search for the update in question on the search field at the bottom of the logs.

    A report is attached to this article which, after being imported, will return the list of all updates associated to the bulletin and whether they have been downloaded or not.