Deployment Solution

I have Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8.
On a dual boot PC (64bit) (WinXP SP3/Ubuntu 9.04) I installed the linux Altiris client
altiris-adlagent-2.6.12-x86_64.bin)

When booted into Ubuntu, in Altiris Deployment console the PC is seen and reported with its
hostname and the typical linux icon (small pinguin and an extra 'head' when a user is
logged in in Ubuntu op that PC).

Sending a power_down job to the PC does however do nothing at all.

(in Altiris Deployement Console Details pane it reports "Power management task complete", but the computer does not do a shutdown -
when booted into WindowsXP, the power_down job works ok: it does a shutdown and powers off)

What is wrong here and how to remedy?

I'm going to guess that this is due to Ubuntu not being a supported operating system.  Try shutting down or rebooting the system using Run Script in a job.  I bet that will work.

Jesse is correct, it is because Ubuntu is an unsupported operating system.  There might be other gotchas you will have to deal with.

you have to relink the /bin/sh to bash. It is currently linked to /bin/dash which is a striped down version of the bash shell. Once you relink them it will work just fine. Please see kb article below

Article ID: 32601

Attempting to install ADLagent on Ubuntu Linux fails
Applies To

• Deployment Solution

Problem/Symptoms



Attempting to install ADLagent on newer versions of Ubuntu fail.

Environment

Attempting to install ADLagent on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) fails.
This might also be the case for other versions and flavors (distributions) of Linux.

Cause

In Ubuntu 6.10 the /bin/sh symbolic link refers to a stripped down shell (dash), that does not meet the requirements of the ADLagent installer, thus the install fails.

Resolution

Ubuntu is unsupported by Altiris but some users have gotten it to work:

To solve this issue point the symbolic link of /bin/sh to /bin/bash.

The steps to achieve this would be to;

* Remove the symbolic link /bin/sh
* Re-link /bin/sh with /bin/bash

if you want ubuntu support please subscribe to KB article 47859. The more people subscribe to it the more likely development will put it in.

I know that and had applied it already (otherwise ADLAgent does not work at all).

But my problem is that If my dual-boot system is booted into Ubuntu, sending a power-down from Altiris
does not do anything.

When booted in WinXP, it does the power-down. Also, when powered-down after Windows was last used, I can send in Altiris a WAKE-ON-LAN and the PC with start up.

But when the PC was shut down when Ubuntu was last used, then an Altiris WAKE-ON-LAN doesn't do
anything.

My BIOS is OK (since Windows: power_down and wake-on-lan OK, and when I had openSUSE in that partition,
then power_down and wake-on-lan also worked when system was in openSUSE or shut down when last in openSUSE)

How to remedy this ??

I have never used Run script in a job..

Can you write down an example?

As in another reply post of mine, you will see that also a wake-on-lan after the system was shut down from last being used in Ubuntu, is not honoured (but when shut down last used in Windows, it does).
Can this be solved with a 'run script in a job' also ??