HPDM Tasks don't get sent to Clients (t520)

[polyc]

Hello, are here any HPDM experts, I'm out of ideas what the problem could be.

My Setup:

HPDM 5.0

Gateway, Repository, Console, Server all on the same Physical Server

I've got a t530 with Win10Iot64 (manually installed) - works with no Problems

I've got several t520's - one of them is manually installed with a newer Win7 Embedded Standard Version then the others.

The newer one works with no Problems. 

Now with the rest i have a Prproblem. They don't seem to get the Tasks from the gateway. 

What I've done so far: 

- entered manual DNS entry for _hpdm-gateway

- nslookup works on every PC within the Network

- updated Bios

- deactivated Firewall on Thin Client

Every Task i send to the old t520's gets stuck in the Gateway with status sending. 

Any help would be appreciated since I'm running on time here. Thanks in advance.

[polyc · Accepted solution]

I figured it out. Actually 1 hour after i posted this. But in my opinion it is kind of tricky. So for anyone in the future having the sam problem here is what I did:

It seems like the version of the Remote Agent, on the Windows 7 Embedded Standard Version which is stndard installed on the t520 when it's shipped isn't compatile with the HPDM 5.0. So i downloaded the newer Version of Windows 7 Embedded Standard (Sept. 2017) from the HP ThinUpdate Tool and installed it manually on my own Client. There I configured everything and updated the Agent via HPDM. Then i copied the Image via HPDM to a Template. Now you have to do everything in exact this order: 

Start the Task on the clients you want to deploy the Image, now the Task is stuck in the Gateway because the Remote Agent isn't able to communicate with the Gateway. You have to update it to the Agent Version which can be found in the HPDM Repository under Repository/Agents/Win32.  Copy the Win32 Folder to the client and make a .cmd File in the same directory. 

Copy this into the .cmd and execute it.

net stop hpdmagent
timeout 1
copy .\HPDMAgent.exe c:\windows\temp
update c:\windows\xpeagent\hpdmagent.exe c:\windows\temp\HPDMAgent.exe 0
net start hpdmagent
PAUSE

It updates the Agent and then instantly pulls the Task from the Gateway. 

Note you can't do this before you ran the Task in the HPDM because then the Client gets categorised into the Win32 OS category and that one isn't able to deploy images. 

I don't know if it's a bug or I'm abusing something there but it works in the end.