[sims] SIMS Solus 3 bypassed for a manual install

winng · September 14, 2012

Hi

I have read with great interest the many ups and downs of SIMS, in particular Solus 3, which I have been attempting to use for the past year with varied success.

I've got to the point today where I would just like the ability to go to a workstation that Solus 3 continues to see as 'offline' or 'the remote machine cannot be contacted' and manually install the latest update to SIMS .net.

Is this even possible any more?

Thanks

Graeme

matt40k · September 14, 2012

The cope out approach is to run SOLUS2 first, so that your setups directory gets updated, then run it via SOLUS3. This basically means you can manually run the .exes.

Personally, it's a tempory measure and you should be looking at resolving the actual issue. I would recommend checking the c:\Program Files\Solus3\AgentService\systemlog.txt on the machines that don't work.

winng · September 14, 2012

Hi Matt, I don't know what I'm looking for here. Any ideas?

2012-09-14 07:30:32.6406|Info|Current directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32

2012-09-14 07:30:32.7187|Info|Base directory: C:\Program Files\Solus3\AgentService\

2012-09-14 07:30:32.7187|Info|Agent Service started.

2012-09-14 07:30:33.7968|Error|System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: No DNS entries exist for host morden. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No such host is known

at System.Net.Dns.GetAddrInfo(String name)

at System.Net.Dns.InternalGetHostByName(String hostName, Boolean includeIPv6)

at System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(String hostNameOrAddress)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.DnsCache.Resolve(String hostName)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Server stack trace:

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.DnsCache.Resolve(String hostName)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SocketConnectionInitiator.GetIPAddresses(Uri uri)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SocketConnectionInitiator.Connect(Uri uri, TimeSpan timeout)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.BufferedConnectionInitiator.Connect(Uri uri, TimeSpan timeout)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ConnectionPoolHelper.EstablishConnection(TimeSpan timeout)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.StreamedFramingRequestChannel.StreamedFramingRequest.SendRequest(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.RequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)

at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.RequestChannelBinder.Send(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation)

at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message)

Exception rethrown at [0]:

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)

at Sims.Solus3.DeploymentServer.ServiceInterface.IAgentServiceManager.AgentWakeup(WakeupInfoDto wakeupInfo)

at Sims.Solus3.DeploymentServer.ServiceProxy.AgentManagerProxy.AgentWakeup(WakeupInfoDto wakeupInfo)

at Sims.Solus3.Agent.AgentService.AgentWakeupManager.SendWakeupInfo(WakeupInfoDto wakeupInfo)System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: No DNS entries exist for host morden.