Remind again button

(imported topic written by Harald.Zarakowitis)

Hi,

when we roll out patches, we want the users to restart afterwards. Because users should get disturbed in their work, I set the option “Allow postponement of up to”: 1 day and “Force restart/shutdown after” 1 day.

Some of my colleagues reported that when they click the “remind again” button they will not get a reminder again. Also the restart is not forced after 1 day. Why does this not work? Did you experienced something like this?

Best regards,

Harald Zarakowitis

(imported comment written by bdoellefeld)

I have the same issue, still not resolved. On some clients, the reminder just does not return after postpone.

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=233

(imported comment written by BenKus)

I believe that if the action expires or is stopped, the reminder/restart dialog will not be shown later. Might this explain the behavior you are seeing?

Ben

(imported comment written by Harald.Zarakowitis)

No, the particular action is set to end in 2 weeks, so the action is still running when the postpone time should ran out. Also the users do not have the option to cancel the reboot.

I tested it for values from 1 - 10 minutes and it works. But user often postpone the reboot for several hours and then it seems that they do not get a reminder again nor is a reboot forced after 24 hours.

(imported comment written by Fredrik23)

We are having the same problem. We had a extra look this week at a site with 144 clients and at least 10 of these had this problem, after chosen to postpone.

Four of these I have spoken with and they postponed between 45 minutes and up to 6 hours. And after that the restart request never returned.

The action is still open.

(imported comment written by HectorB)

We’re also having the same problem and it’s cousing a good number of machines go without the patch being applied due to the user forgetting to re-start their machines.

Any idea how can turn on the log feature of the BES Client?

Thanks,

Hector B.