We encountered a problem at one point where a problem in our configuration caused a number of updates to sit on the manager unable to be posted using the BCP utility to the SQL database. The result of this was the details the console was showing us didn't represent what the reality was, clients loagging behind vastly on their updates when we knew that they were updating properly.
I put together the enclosed script to spot check the status of the of the files on the managers. The script requires a small amount of configuring with notepad before you run it, you need to edit the following lines.
Rem Add servers in the next line you wish to monitor Set Servers=SEPM1,SEPM2 Rem Set the delay between polling Set Interval=30 Rem Where is the default root install directory on those servers Set DefaultInstallDir=C$\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager