Our infrastructure consists of a primary parent site and several primary child sites, each with one or more distribution point. Each child site also acts as management point for the site. WSUS is used for patch detection and Configuration Manager 2007 (no R2) for deployment of patches. Each site has its own databases which synchronize with the parent site.
Recently, with no changes being made to the server configuration, software update objects such as update lists and update deployments fail to replicate to one of the child sites. Collections and other objects on the site do not appear to be impacted. All other sites have replicated as expected.
In the config mgr console, the software updates package shows that it has been successfully copied/installed on all distribution points for the site and reports the correct source version. I have verified that both the compressed and uncompressed patches in the package have been successfully copied to the site.
objreplmgr.log shows several errors similar to the following:
Processing replication file E:\SMS\inboxes\objmgr.box\INCOMING\Retry\XXX_22026.CID in retry. SMS_OBJECT_REPLICATION_MANAGER 6/18/2010 2:03:26 PM 17836 (0x45AC)
Referenced configuration items are not available yet:
http://schemas.microsoft.com/systemsmanagementserver/Site_XXXX/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1);http://schemas.microsoft....ite_/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1);http://schemas.microsoft....e_XXXX/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1]http://schemas.microsoft.com/systemsmanagementserver/Site_XXXX/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1);
http://schemas.microsoft....ite_/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1);http://schemas.microsoft....e_XXXX/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1]http://schemas.microsoft.com/systemsmanagementserver/Site_/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1);
http://schemas.microsoft....e_XXXX/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1]http://schemas.microsoft.com/systemsmanagementserver/Site_XXXX/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1);
http://schemas.microsoft....e_XXXX/SUM_XXXX/1(1)(1[/link][/link][/link]); SMS_OBJECT_REPLICATION_MANAGER 6/18/2010 2:03:28 PM 17836 (0x45AC)
Failed to insert Object ScopeId_XXXX/AuthList_XXXX from replication file E:\SMS\inboxes\objmgr.box\INCOMING\Retry\XXX_22026.CID. SMS_OBJECT_REPLICATION_MANAGER 6/18/2010 2:03:28 PM 17836 (0x45AC)
The error messages reference several configuration items which are attempting to replicate down from the parent site. In the parent site database, the CI_ConfigurationItems table contains all configuration items referred to in the error messages. This is not the case on the affected secondary site.
As indicated by the errors in objreplmgr.log, the entries for several CI items are missing entirely from the child site database. From what I can see, the “bad” patches do not have much in common, other than the fact that they are bundled patches. Many of the bad items are fairly old, from 2008/2009. Some are now superseded or expired, others are not.
Have any of you brilliant minds out there experienced a similar problem? Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
Update: A search of this site brought up the following article from 2008, which did not resolve the issue in this situation, but did offer valuable insight into the issue:
http://www.myitforum.com/articles/1/view.asp?id=11422
<message edited by Tansy on Monday, June 21, 2010 12:01 PM>