Hi,
I am trying to automate the process described in the article "Delete unused Software Update Packages and clean-up disk space".
First I am disabling patch policies which are not used anymore. I have started with all bulletins which are superseeded as for sure they are not needed anymore. I keep the disabled policies for a couple of days until I delete them. And then the "Check Software Update Package Integrity Job " should do the job to clean-up the packages on the disk. However, this part was not working and I figured out that the bulletins still show "Disable" in the Report "Software Bulletin Details".
So the "Disable Policy Item Component" which I use in the workflow does not do the same thing as the "Disable" function available in the report. So I started to research what other function would be available and the only thing I found was the article here:
https://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/programatically-disable-staged-bulletins
But running the profiler myself it seems there are other store procedured called when using the action from the menu. So I was wondering if there are other options available.
Maybe it is possible to call the "Menu action Disable" somehow? Or is there any function in the Patch Management webservice available which I missed? Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks
Stefan