Once configured, the day to day operations and management of Task Server and its clients should be minimal. The bulk of your work is in scoping, installation and setup. However, there are some areas to be aware of, in terms of data growth and maintenance. Here are some tips to help you know where (and where not to) go.
You should make sure that you have correctly configured Data purging for Task Servers to meet your reporting requirements. This is set by default to 30 days, and is set to run on the daily schedule by default as well. A best practice would be to change this to run on a custom schedule that runs daily, but not on the Daily shared schedule, as there are a substantial amount of other items that run on that schedule, and this could cause a substantial load on the Notification Server. See the figure below for the console location to change this.
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The Task Data Purge Policy dialog.
Once a Task Server is used by an agent, the agent will not attempt to use another Task Server until the agent has been restarted.
To install the Software Delivery Agent For Task Server,
Other solution-specific agent installation instructions will be added as they become available.
Make sure you have updated to Task Server 6.x Sp2. There were some known agent registration and communication issues in 6.x Sp1 that have been resolved.
it maybe related to the fact that XP have limited number of session connections and other server OS don't...
we run task servers on win2003 and they work fine most of the time. but from time to time the agent stop communicate with NS and i need to reset the services on the task server.
i wonder why this happen... if someone know how to resolve this it will be great.
Hi
In our environment we use proxy servers to control our Internet access. When you install the task agent on the local device (user device), it enters the proxy into the registry under HKLM/Altiris/Communication/Proxy/xxxxx. Having this setting there prevents the agent from registering and communicating with the task server. If you delete the entry and restart the agent it just puts it back. If you disable the proxy settings in IE then it works fine...What to do? I can't disable the proxy settings in IE.
Any help will be appreciated
Thanks!