About registrationlist.txt

Usage and Config Platform
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(imported topic written by go4u)

directory: BES Server\ClientRegisterData directory

file: registrationlist.txt

I want to know what does each line mean of the registrationlist.txt file?

such as :

1183948667 127.0.0.1 1 1183961872 5 0 0 0 0

thanks

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi go4u,

The registrationlist is used to keep information about computers so it knows where to send UDP messages. This entry is from the BES Agent on the BES Server.

May I ask why you want to know?

Ben

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(imported comment written by go4u)

Hi,Ben

because when running the tool BESClientRefresher.exe ,it needs a computerid ,such as

“BESClientRefresher.exe -c 1183948667” ;

so i need to know when lots of computers report “Not reported”,and the refresh "UDP"cannot send to the clients,maybe i should use BESClientRefresher,but first i shoud know the computerid of such clients, but manually look for the computerid is a hard work when there are thousands of clients.

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(imported comment written by go4u)

Waiting for the answer or solution

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi go4u,

I am not sure why you are having so many computers… but if you need a quick way to get the computer ID, you can create a property “ComputerID” with the relevance

computer id

Ben

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(imported comment written by go4u)

Hi,Ben

one reason is that:

If I stop running the besclient from the services.msc ,then I log on the console and on the “computer” tab, I choose the computer mentioned above, right click ,“delete” from db and also use the “BESDeletedCompRemover” tool to remove the record of the db .

Then,I start the besclient from the services.msc, but the client shows everything “not reported” ,including the “computer ID” (I wrote a property already ) shows “not reported” . only “Last reported time” shows OK.

If there is a firewall between the client and server ,that is i cannot use right-click and refresh a “UDP” ping .

so the status will last for ever . I think I could use the BESClientRefresher tool.

If I knows the client’s IP address, i can look for the registrationlist.txt to find its computerid. so that is what i want to know, if the client’s IP address “not reported” on the console,how can i get its computerID

go4u

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi go4u,

I highly recommend that you do NOT run the BESDeletedCompRemover.exe and all these issues will go away. There should be no good reason to run that tool unless you have more than 50,000 BES Agents with a very high turnover… and even then, I would only run it a couple times per year.

Ben

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(imported comment written by go4u)

Hi Ben,

Thanks for ur suggestion.

What i said is just one of the reasons that the clients’s properties shows .

And I want to know how can i find the computerID if the property “computerID” also shows .

I thinks I could find more details from the file “registrationlist.txt”

Thanks

go4u

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi go4u,

If you do not run the BESDeletedCompRemover.exe, the computer’s information will stay in the database and it will not need to be refreshed with the clientrefresher.

The only place to find the computerIDs are in the database or in the registrationlist.txt, but there is not really an easy way to do this.

Ben

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(imported comment written by go4u)

“there is not really an easy way to do this”

So it is.

Thx a lot,Ben

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

You might make sure you are using the most recent version of the BESDeletedCompRemover.exe, there have been updates to help prevent the behavior (v. 2.2.8.23).

Be sure to use the -r switch when you run it, this will mark computers as needing a refresh at the time they are deleted and help prevent them from coming back with values.