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Cannot create stream (pulling my hair out now)

Hey Guys

First post here but long time sophos user. I look after 5 primary schools in west yorkshire and our anti virus is provided by sophos. We have our own update location that we pull updates from rather than from sophos (dont ask me for the reason why, i just get told where to get updates :-/)

Anyway, we have finally been given sophos enterprise console 4.7 to play with and i have upgraded two of my servers across the 5 schools. Ive been having some severe problems getting EC to update, upon checking the logs i see "cannot create stream" and a bunch of hex code.

Ive followed the stuff on sophos' website on deleting the working-sub and sub0 directories or whatever and this unfortunately doesnt resolve the problem.

Ive been waiting over a week for our in house support desk to resolve the issues but ive not heard a peep and some of my servers havent updated in that time.

Can anyone offer some advice? unfortunately i cant contact sophos direct as because our license is a local education one sophos cannot actually support us we are expected to speak to our in house team for all support (even as useless as hey are)

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks

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  • Can't say why YHGfL set up their re-distribution warehouse this way.

    Don't know how widely "dependent autonomous" SUMs (as opposed to a SUM hierarchy) are used. You might for example have several locations with their "own" IT but you don't want to give them the license credentials. Like with YHGfL they'd have to use your central SUM (instead of Sophos) as their source. This is a valid setup. So why did Bluetooth encounter this error when using the 9 Recommended (I assume it was this one - but it could have been 9.5 Recommended) subscription?

    When a SUM accesses its source warehouse it downloads 

    • all Metadata (i.e. a description and content list of the available products)
    • the Update Manager software
    • the files for the products/product versions selected in the Software Subscriptions

    to its own warehouse. A "dependent" SUM will thus have the same software list to select from but if it tries to download a product not selected by the redistributing SUM it will encounter an error like the one in the subject as the required files are not in this warehouse. Another point to note is "generic" version name used. At the moment you'll see 9 Recommended9.5 Recommended and 9.7 Recommended with 9.5 as recommended for 9. After a few months 9.7 will become the recommended version for the base version 9. Thus if the central SUM has subscribed to 9 Recommended but the dependent to 9.5 Recommended it will work right now but eventually fail.   

    @Bluetooth: I'd like to send you some more comments but not publicly . If you are interested please send me a PM (and turn on PM so I can reply).

    Christian

    :14011
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  • Can't say why YHGfL set up their re-distribution warehouse this way.

    Don't know how widely "dependent autonomous" SUMs (as opposed to a SUM hierarchy) are used. You might for example have several locations with their "own" IT but you don't want to give them the license credentials. Like with YHGfL they'd have to use your central SUM (instead of Sophos) as their source. This is a valid setup. So why did Bluetooth encounter this error when using the 9 Recommended (I assume it was this one - but it could have been 9.5 Recommended) subscription?

    When a SUM accesses its source warehouse it downloads 

    • all Metadata (i.e. a description and content list of the available products)
    • the Update Manager software
    • the files for the products/product versions selected in the Software Subscriptions

    to its own warehouse. A "dependent" SUM will thus have the same software list to select from but if it tries to download a product not selected by the redistributing SUM it will encounter an error like the one in the subject as the required files are not in this warehouse. Another point to note is "generic" version name used. At the moment you'll see 9 Recommended9.5 Recommended and 9.7 Recommended with 9.5 as recommended for 9. After a few months 9.7 will become the recommended version for the base version 9. Thus if the central SUM has subscribed to 9 Recommended but the dependent to 9.5 Recommended it will work right now but eventually fail.   

    @Bluetooth: I'd like to send you some more comments but not publicly . If you are interested please send me a PM (and turn on PM so I can reply).

    Christian

    :14011
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