Update Windows 7 For X64 Based Systems

[Keri Gamrath]

Ihave been working on Discovery for a few months now and I am currently having an issue discovering Windows based systems. I have tried discovering a few different varieties that our organization uses (Windows 7, Windows 10, Server 2016, etc) and it seems that nothing is being done after the WMIRunner is sent out. What is throwing me off is that the discovery does not fail, rather it appears to complete without any issue. Looking at the Device tab of the Discovery Status page, I can see that the "current activity" is Classifying, however there is no other information except the source IP address. Out of curiosity, I hopped on one of our MID server hosts and attempted to use 'wmic' to reach a remote Windows machine and that appears to be working correctly from what I can tell.

I had a similar issue a few months ago. Discovery was working fine, then all Windows discoveries stopped at the WMI: Classify. Just as you describe - nothing was being returned by the WMIRunner and Discovery didn't fail but shows "Discovery completed" in the Discovery log.

We had recently patched Java on our MID Servers to Oracle Java 8 release 231 (build 1.8.0_231-b11/8.0.2310.11). This version introduced Runetime.exe and ProcessBuilder argument restrictions that the MID server uses for running some PowerShell commands. ServiceNow has posted a work around for this by adding wrapper.java.additional.3=-Djdk.lang.Process.allowAmbiguousCommands=true to the wrapper-override.conf.

Hi - look at the returned (inbound) payloads of the ECC queue for clues. After shazzam phase its likely finding a given IP is windows (WMI port 135). It then needs to classify the IP to figure out what version of windows (2012, 2016, etc.). The inbound response from the target during classification should (must) match 1 of the identifiers for the subsequent phases to kick off and explore deeper.

The inbound responses to the ecc queue might yield some clues. Classifiers are defined under CI Classification... and the criteria is unique to each one, which helps Disco figure out exactly what windows is running on a given IP.

If I go in and look at the XML on the ECC queue input, it doesn't seem like anything is actually getting returned from the machine in question. Maybe I need to post the XML or see what an expected response should include. I would like to think WMI is working properly; I've used the WMI tester on a few other machines around the office and it seems to return all the objects.

The new 2021-12 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 for x64-based systems (KB5008218) hangs at 24% for a long time before completing. It completes but what is it doing at 24% that makes it the longest percentage? Couldn't they take the whole time it takes to install this update divide that by 100 (for 100%) then more evenly nudge the percentage number? Instead, it takes 90% of its install life sitting at 24%.

The Windows Server 2012 R2 version of this update was installed much faster than the Server 2019 version. I've installed these on numerous machines and the result is the same, even with SSD-backed storage. It works.... just have patience when you see 24%.

This post is more like curiosity, what exactly is happening behind the scenes at 24%, and then also to Microsoft, feedback, that the update progress time should be more evenly distributed from 1 to 100%. Anyways, thanks for the overtime Microsoft. Glad I get paid by the hour!

Actually I'm staring at one now... 24% whatever it is, takes a very long time. Fortinately it does install. I only had one server give me a hexadecimal error code, but I resolved that by just downloading it from the Microsoft Windows Update Catalog and running it by hand. If you run it by hand the progress bar does not have a percent on it, but it does fill only maybe 1/10th of the way and sits there for about 45 minutes and then BOOM, its filled out and goes to the installation successful screen.

I hope in the future Microsoft changes it, or maybe don't put a percentage at all, put a thin progress bar. Does Microsoft employees read this? Anyway I did leave feedback on that site, and on my computer I'll hit Win+F and leave feedback there too.

I guess there's nothing else you can really do, and the updates install, they just chill at 24% for a while. Like I said there's no issue, the main reason for this post was more of a curiosity thing. I think I can mark your post as an answer because unless an actual engineer that wrote windows update comes on here and explains, I don't think we will get a better, more accurate answer.

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