I received the following error this morning on my vCenter server after a brief reboot for a few Windows updates:
Hardware Monitoring on This Host is Not Responding
This error is generated when I click on the Hardware Status tab on each Host. I went to Plugins -> Manage Plugins disabled and re-enabled to no avail.
Came across this post at VMware Communities. Looked at half the suggestions and came to one indicating to restart the VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices.
When attempting to run Windows Update the following message appears: ‘Error number: 0x8DDD0018.’ This message states that the Automatic Updates, BITS, and Event Log services must be started, but they are all started and WinUpdates still fails.
Run this command from a command prompt:
regsvr32.exe wuaueng.dll
Here’s today’s riddle:
I got this interesting problem after installing SP3 on a Windows XP Home system via the Network Install Service Pack 3 download.
Action Plan
Windows Update error 0x80070424
Quick fix:
%SYSTEMROOT%SYSTEM32REGSVR32.EXE %SYSTEMROOT%SYSTEM32WUAUENG.DLL
A blocking tool is available for organizations that would like to temporarily prevent installation of Service Pack updates through Windows Update. This tool can be used with:
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (valid until May 19th, 2009)
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (valid until April 28th, 2009)
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (valid for 12 months following general availability)
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (valid for 12 months following general availability)
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