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How to determine if the patching is coming from the Replication share or the K1000 appliance?

To help determine whether the patch is coming from the K1000 appliance or the Replication share, patching debugging turned on will print out where the files are coming from:

1. Turn Patching Debugging On the K1000 Client machine:

- Go to C:\Program Files\Kace\KBOX directory

A. SMMP.conf file:

- Open the file smmp.conf

- Add the following line: debug=true

- Save the file

B. Create a empty dummy file called DEBUG_PATCHING with NO extension

C. Stop and Start the KBOX SMMP Management Service in the service panel.

- Be sure the replication share setup is correctly with the client machine that is being used for patching

- Run a detect and deploy onto that client machine with debugging turned on

- Check the PluginPatching.log file under the C:\Program Files\Kace\Kbox directory for the following:

An Example of a line to check out:

[Mon Nov 03 12:04:55 2008] DownloadFile: 'C:\Program Files\KACE\KBOX\patches\xpsp3.lst.zip' error occurred: Could not resolve host: \\B-ABS1-ABC\KBOXPatches$\repl1\patches\windows; No data record of requested type

The hostname of B-ABS1-ABC is the hostname of the Replication share instead of the Main K1000 appliance.

This will show where the patching files are coming from.