The last few days we have been getting the following error in our log and I cannot find out anything about it at all.
It seems like a hidden policy is corrupt or similar but no one else has experienced it before. We have not updated or changed anything within Altiris since this begun however we did have some SAN disk timeout issues that the database is stored on for a few days prior to it occuring.
"14/05/2012 12:16:07 PM","Unable to generate policy XML for item: 660dae58-b89c-4e8a-9c26-ec2029b222c9
**CEDUrlStart** :http://entced.symantec.com/entt?product=SMP&version=7.1.8280.0&language=en&module=qlub65YMYgWeGGssRthgvN1WHJjANnIAgZtUStOHQto=&error=862971658&build=**CEDUrlEnd**
( Exception Details: Altiris.NS.Exceptions.AeXException: Unable to load the specified item (GUID:{660dae58-b89c-4e8a-9c26-ec2029b222c9}) ---> System.Xml.XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 1, position 45823.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEntityName()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseEntityReference()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)
at Altiris.NS.ItemManagement.Item.Load(Guid itemGuid)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Altiris.NS.ItemManagement.Item.Load(Guid itemGuid)
at Altiris.NS.ItemManagement.Item.GetItemInternal(Guid itemGuid, IEnumerable`1 accessPermissions, ItemLoadFlags itemLoadFlags)
at Altiris.NS.ItemManagement.Item.GetItem[T](Guid itemGuid, IEnumerable`1 accessPermissions, ItemLoadFlags itemLoadFlags)
at Altiris.NS.ItemManagement.Item.GetItem[T](Guid itemGuid)
at Altiris.NS.AgentManagement.PolicyRequest.LoadItemPolicy(String request, Guid requestGuid, Guid resourceGuid, Guid hostGuid, Guid policyGuid, String& policy, String& policyHash, Guid& category, Int32& priority, Boolean& canCache, ISet`1& requiredPermissions, ISet`1& filterCollections) )
( Exception logged from:
at Altiris.Diagnostics.Logging.EventLog.ReportException(Int32 severity, String strMessage, String category, Exception exception)
at Altiris.NS.Logging.EventLog.ReportException(Int32 severity, String strMessage, String category, Exception exception)
at Altiris.NS.AgentManagement.PolicyRequest.LoadItemPolicy(String request, Guid requestGuid, Guid resourceGuid, Guid hostGuid, Guid policyGuid, String& policy, String& policyHash, Guid& category, Int32& priority, Boolean& canCache, ISet`1& requiredPermissions, ISet`1& filterCollections)
at Altiris.NS.AgentManagement.PolicyRequest.LoadItemPolicies(String request, String configVers, Guid hostGuid, List`1 idents, SortedDictionary`2& policies, SortedDictionary`2& hashes)
at Altiris.NS.AgentManagement.PolicyRequest.GetPolicies(String request)
at Altiris.Web.NS.Agent.GetClientPolicies.ProcessRequest(String& request, Byte[]& clientConfigData, String& clientConfigXml, Boolean& compress)
at System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, SignatureStruct& sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks)
at System.Delegate.DynamicInvokeImpl(Object[] args)
at Altiris.Common.Threading.LocalThreadPool.InvokeCallback(Object state)
at Altiris.Common.Threading.LocalThreadPool.ExecuteUserWorkItem(UserWorkItem workItem)
at Altiris.NS.Threading.NSThreadPool.ExecuteUserWorkItem(UserWorkItem workItem)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at Altiris.Common.Threading.LocalThreadPool.ExecuteUserWorkItemInContext(UserWorkItem workItem)
at Altiris.Common.Threading.LocalThreadPool.ThreadPoolProc(Object threadStartParameter)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart(Object obj)
)
( Extra Details: Type=Altiris.NS.Exceptions.AeXException Src=Altiris.NS
Inner Extra Details: Type=System.Xml.XmlException Src=System.Xml )","Altiris.NS.AgentManagement.PolicyRequest.LoadItemPolicy","w3wp","29"
Has anyone else seen this before? It's quite urgent that I resolve it.
Cheers.
Rian