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How to diagnose PE018 with Windows Update Sensor

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Hello

I'm monitoring eight remote servers, all of which are Small Business Server 2011 (e.g. Windows 2008 R2). All have a remote probe installed (v15.x.x.x). The PRTG Core is on a 2012 R2 box.

For seven of the remote probe machines, The Windows Update Status (Powershell) command is working great, but for the last machine I only ever get a PE018 error (timeout). On all machines, including the failing one, the output of $PSVersionTable is the same.

There's a thread here:

https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/63400-windows-update-powershell-timeout-code:-pe018

but only one reply and that reply doesn't seem to change anything.

Is there a way to diagnose what might be wrong, perhaps a log file somewhere on one of the machines?

Many thanks

Jim

backup pe018 powershell prtg update windows

Created on Jul 5, 2015 6:03:15 AM



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Exactly configured the same way? Are you running the sensors directly on the probe device (with the IP 127.0.0.1) or a device configured under that probe?

Created on Jul 8, 2015 6:15:40 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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