Article: Forcing KACE inventory updates on multiple machines at once.

I ran into a problem whereby I wanted to force inventory updates on a whole lab of computers at once (about 27 machines), however in the K1000 I could only update them one at a time, causing me to spend a lot of time doing this.

I came up with the following solution:

First I installed the pstools suite from Microsoft, the one I particularly wanted was psexec.

I then wrote the following Python Script to do the inventory updates:

## import necessary modules
import thread
import os
import sys

## Set locations to runkbot.exe and kdeploy.exe

runkbot = r'"C:\Program Files\Dell\KACE\runkbot.exe"'
kdeploy = r'"C:\Program Files\Dell\KACE\KDeploy.exe"'

## Define function to process the Inventory Update for individual machines and

##deploy any waiting managed installs

def InvUpdate(id):
os.system('psexec.exe \\\\%s ' %id + runkbot + ' -s 4 0')
os.system('psexec.exe \\\\%s ' %id + kdeploy + ' -mi')

## create a list of machines you want to force an inventory update on
class = ['machine1', 'machine2', 'machine3']

## Forces inventory update by creating multiple threads for machines in the 'class' group
for machines in class:
thread.start_new_thread(InvUpdate, (machines,))

This goes off and runs "C:\Program Files\Dell\KACE\runkbot.exe -s 4 0" on all machines listed under "class"

The script is pretty quick and rough, but it does the job.

Let me know what you think, and feel free to give it a go and see if it works for you

~Cheers,

Christian Dow

System Administrator

Wanganui Park Secondary College

Comments

I use the k1000 admin screen, less work. Go to Inventory - Computers and in the search put the first part of the rooms machines name (for example EDS-102, the machines are names EDS-102-01,...) Then under the "choose action" dropdown pick "Force Update of Selected Item(s)" - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
Is this in the new update? I don't have this item in the "choose action" dropdown menu. - Daedalus 11 years ago
- we are running 5.4 - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
  - Ah, we haven't updated to 5.4 yet. Thanks! - Daedalus 11 years ago

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