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I found one of my customer last week in great need of using aila because we had a few "run-away" clients that sent an enormous amount of data (nse's) to the server.

So I started working on a couple of improvments to aila, and here they are:

• Compile versions of aila are available in 4 flavours:
  • Linux 32-bit
  • Linux 64-bit
  • Windows 32-bit
  • Windows 64-bit (New!!!)
• aila can now handle any w3c schema type used in the log files, with changes within the file itself.
• we...

Here are some of the interesting characteristics of the new xml file.

First of all the SIM version bumped from 7.0.52 to 7.0.64. Its MD5 hash is 0562c0db3a754f3fb56faaaae7ead49b.

Then we have a major additions that should interested the Connect community: 

• Altiris Client Management Suite SP2 MR3, version 7.0.14

Here are some of the solutions updated:

• Altiris Patch Management Solution for Linux SP2 MR3
• Altiris Deployment Solution Core MR3 (v7.1.643)
• Altiris Software Management Solution SP2 MR3
• Altiris Asset Management MR3
• Altiris IT Management Suite MR3
• and so on

Now it will be very interesting to see how all of this installs and behave. I'm specially awaiting for a Software Management fix of the Symantec Management Agent that fails to download modified package files...

I am working on a problem with packages not refreshing their snapshots since last week [1] and today we have made a break thru: the root cause of the issue is a change of OwnerNSGuid that happened on the server coresettings.config during a SQL authentication change.

We don't know exactly how it happened but the change causes packages that do not match the coresetting OwnerNSGuid to not refreshed.

Note that vThisNS was not changed on the database.

Here are a few SQL query that we used int he tourbleshooting process:

select ownernsguid, count (*) from RM_ResourceSoftware_Package group by OwnerNSGuid

select ownernsguid, count (*) from Item group by OwnerNSGuid

Running the first query returned 3 different guids. Apparently the SMP migration created legacy packages under the 6.x OwnerNSGuid.

Now, we are planning to revert the OwnerNSGuid back to the original entry, still present in vThisNS. I'll post results back here when available...