{"id":10474,"date":"2010-03-02T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2010-03-02T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:56:00","slug":"vmm-2008-r2-host-needs-attention-after-kb978560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10474","title":{"rendered":"VMM 2008 R2: Host Needs Attention After KB978560"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this one last night for myself and I\u2019ve just seen a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mbriggs\/archive\/2010\/02\/25\/host-in-needs-attention-state-after-installation-of-kb978560.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">week-old post<\/a> by Mike Briggs on the subject.&#160; When you deploy <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;978560\" target=\"_blank\">KB978560<\/a> to your VMM 2008 R2 server, it will require an update to the agents.&#160; You\u2019ll see a yellow exclamation mark icon appear on your hosts.&#160; When you check their status you\u2019ll see that you must take manual action to resolve the issue.&#160; Simply right-click on the managed hosts, update the agent, and provide any required credentials.&#160; It takes a minute or two, then you\u2019ll get your \u201cissue\u201d resolved.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Be sure to put the hosts in maintenance mode in OpsMgr if you\u2019re using it.&#160; Otherwise you\u2019ll get a bunch of alerts for every host you upgrade.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4ed4467b-ba10-4954-95ca-0a14e5416684\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMM+2008+R2\" rel=\"tag\">VMM 2008 R2<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this one last night for myself and I\u2019ve just seen a week-old post by Mike Briggs on the subject.&#160; When you deploy KB978560 to your VMM 2008 R2 server, it will require an update to the agents.&#160; You\u2019ll see a yellow exclamation mark icon appear on your hosts.&#160; When you check their status &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10474\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMM 2008 R2: Host Needs Attention After KB978560&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-vmm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}