Kace Patching Filling up Temp Directory
We have been using Kace to patch our workstations for a couple of years now. We just recently started testing patching on our servers. We have a group of test servers that we've been using the past couple of months to test with. Our servers have very small C: partitions (basically room for the OS), and then everything else usually ends up on separate partitions. It looks like Kace is running the installers from C:\Windows\Temp where multiple directories are being created. Just in the past two months we have been testing that directory is now up to 3GB +. Even though this does not sound like much after last nights patching on these test servers they all went to alarm with low disk space. When I checked my workstations it was also doing the same. It just hasn't been an issue because we have a larger C: on our workstations.
Is there any setting that I'm overlooking that I'm not seeing? I'm a little hesitant to have a scheduled task to delete the temp directory every month. It seems like it should do it's own cleanup?
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With the help of support I created an Online Script that will delete the files related to patching. @echo off del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.cab" /S /Q del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.manifest" /S /Q del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.cat" /S /Q del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.mum" /S /Q cd C:\Windows\Temp FOR /D /R %%X IN (amd64_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X" FOR /D /R %%X IN (msil_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X" FOR /D /R %%X IN (wow64_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X" FOR /D /R %%X IN (x86_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X" REM ######### Delete Empty Directories ########### for /f "tokens=*" %%d in ('dir /ad/b/s ^| sort /R') do rd "%%d"
With the help of support I created an Online Script that will delete the files related to patching. @echo off del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.cab" /S /Q del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.manifest" /S /Q del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.cat" /S /Q del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.mum" /S /Q cd C:\Windows\Temp FOR /D /R %%X IN (amd64_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X" FOR /D /R %%X IN (msil_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X" FOR /D /R %%X IN (wow64_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X" FOR /D /R %%X IN (x86_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X" REM ######### Delete Empty Directories ########### for /f "tokens=*" %%d in ('dir /ad/b/s ^| sort /R') do rd "%%d"
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dugullett
9 years ago
With the help of support I created an Online Script that will delete the files related to patching.
@echo off
del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.cab" /S /Q
del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.manifest" /S /Q
del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.cat" /S /Q
del "C:\Windows\Temp\*.mum" /S /Q
cd C:\Windows\Temp
FOR /D /R %%X IN (amd64_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X"
FOR /D /R %%X IN (msil_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X"
FOR /D /R %%X IN (wow64_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X"
FOR /D /R %%X IN (x86_*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X"
REM ######### Delete Empty Directories ###########
for /f "tokens=*" %%d in ('dir /ad/b/s ^| sort /R') do rd "%%d"
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Thanks for the update of the temp fix, I guess they are going to fix this properly in a future release? - SMal.tmcc 9 years ago
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I heard possibly in 6.3. Which for some crazy reason even though we're on 6.0 now 6.3 will be the next release. Try and wrap your mind around that one! - dugullett 9 years ago
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What I have noticed is that it seems to only happen on my 2003 servers that are running Dell OpenManage and have the Kace agent installed.
Funny thing is I have not turned on the Patching feature from the K1000 yet. It seems to be some sort of interaction between the two.
I noticed that something about KACE causes the process INVCOL to run and download all the patches, firmware, etc and fail to install them. - JordanNolan 9 years ago
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wmichel23
8 years ago
Hi. I am seeing the same is and I am on 6.3.314 for the KACE agents. Is that script the only solution KACE support is providing or is this going to be addressed in the product? How often are you running that script?
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It's listed as a known issue in the 6.3 release notes. I would assume that would mean they take care of it soon. For this particular patch schedule we actually run them manually (save and run now). So after I run the schedule and it's complete I then manually run the script.
For my workstations I have a label for machines for disk capacity is greater than 90%. I then run that script on that label monthly. - dugullett 8 years ago
Posted by:
SMal.tmcc
9 years ago
I am see the same thing, looks like a bug we should report. It looks like it started with the 6.0 client on mine.
You are right you do not just want to delete the windows\temp folder since it can then cause a problem with trying to uninstall/repiar/upgrade previously installed programs and patches.
read down to the bottom of this thread
http://superuser.com/questions/418032/emptying-windows-temp-folder-is-a-good-idea
You are right you do not just want to delete the windows\temp folder since it can then cause a problem with trying to uninstall/repiar/upgrade previously installed programs and patches.
read down to the bottom of this thread
http://superuser.com/questions/418032/emptying-windows-temp-folder-is-a-good-idea
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Yeah I was going to put in a ticket with support, but their site seems to be acting up. It's not taking my usual credentials. It also looks like they have updated it recently so I'm not sure if that's related.
Is anyone else having an issue, or is it just me? - dugullett 9 years ago