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Sophos Heartbeat Service Missing - How to Remove Alert?

Hi,

We're currently migrating from Enterprise Console to Sophos Central and notice that for some machines it is reported that the Sophos Heartbeat service is missing. I notice this only appears on machines that have had the new Endpoint client manually installed, as when using the Migration Tool the other machines don't have this service in its list.

I'm not 100% sure why this is - I can only assume that doing a manual install of the client installs everything, whereas the migration tool only pulls across features that are used on EC. Is there a way on the clients of stopping Sophos looking for the hearbeat service?

Kind regards,

Gareth



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  • Hi Nick

     

    It was still happening on some machines yesterday which were new deployments - although I will say it was probably 3 out of about 150 machines we were migrating from Enterprise Console and some were doing as cold installs and it sounds like you had a much more universal problem previously - the other annoying thing I found on a few we were migrating from EC was the autoupdate service getting uninstalled and the installer would die and leave the machine with no update mechanism installed.

     

    Chris

  • Hello Chris,

     

    Yes our issue was more widespread it seems.

    Although that hasn't been the issue since Sophos has updated, so fingers crossed there, but I saved the script just in case :)

     

    Autoupdate I believe is the last part of the installer, so I understand that frustration.

    I found out for now in order to get it installed I have to manually set the proxy before the installation will succeed, otherwise it says "Installation failed"

    This is of course incorporated into the script, but it was still another issue to overcome.

     

    Happy to help if you run into any other issues, although I do not work at Sophos, just another user.