We went ahead and truncated our Task tables per TECH144662. The only thing I don't like about the clean up script from the tech article is it runs a batch file that will open a command window while running. A colleague of mine who does vbscript attempted to convert it over. Here is the batch file from the tech article and the vb code. The batch file might have been flawed from the beginning because while it works outside of Altiris when run from inside of the console the job fails do to the agent being stopped. When the agent stops, it cancels all tasks it's currently running to restart, therefore, stopping and failing this task as well. The original batch script created a temp bat file and more or less 'queued' it to run after the completion of the task, so the script would be independent of the task itself. The same holds true for the vbscript or so I believe.
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Cleanup Script - Batch
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REM Get the Altiris Agent install path
FOR /F "tokens=2*" %%A IN ('REG.EXE QUERY "HKLM\Software\Altiris\Altiris Agent" /V "installdir"') DO SET AgentDir=%%B set tempbat=%temp%\AgentClean.bat"
REM Create temporary batch file to execute while the agent restarts echo "%AgentDir%\aexagentutil" /stop > %tempbat% echo rmdir "%AgentDir%\TaskManagement\cache" /s /q >> %tempbat% echo rmdir "%AgentDir%\TaskManagement\status" /s /q >> %tempbat% echo rmdir "%AgentDir%\TaskManagement\statusXml" /s /q >> %tempbat%
REM echo rmdir "%AgentDir%\TaskManagement\lti" /s /q >> %tempbat% -- remove away the REM, from this line only if you are running on 7.1 and above
echo ping localhost -n 30 >> %tempbat%
echo "%AgentDir%\aexagentutil" /start >> %tempbat% echo exit >> %tempbat% REM Executes temporary batch file start "" /MIN %tempbat%
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Cleanup Script - VB
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ON ERROR RESUME NEXT
DIM SRCPath, WshShell, fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
SRCPath = WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\Software\Altiris\Altiris Agent\installdir")
Return = WshShell.Run(CHR(34) & SRCPath & "\AeXAgentUtil.exe" & CHR(34) & " /stop", 0 , TRUE)
fso.DeleteFolder(SRCPath & "\TaskManagement\cache") fso.DeleteFolder(SRCPath & "\TaskManagement\status") fso.DeleteFolder(SRCPath & "\TaskManagement\status") fso.DeleteFolder(SRCPath & "\TaskManagement\statusXml") fso.DeleteFolder(SRCPath & "\TaskManagement\lti") WScript.Sleep 5000 Return = WshShell.Run(CHR(34) & SRCPath & "\AeXAgentUtil.exe" & CHR(34) & " /start", 0 , TRUE)
If someone could help me with (A) fix the batch file or (B) cleanup the converted code in the vbscript I would appreciate it. Thanks.