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Patch Repository Filling up the Hard Drive

Author: Timothy Parker Updated

Overview

If the patch repository is filling up the hard drive, there are a few steps that can be performed to resolve this issue.

NOTE: We do not expect our clients to perform these steps as they may not have an instance of Microsoft Access.

It is generally expected that someone from the support team performs the steps mentioned in this article. These steps purge the auto-download queue within LanGuard.

You can also delete the content of the Patch Repository without any issue. However, if the items are still in the download queue, they will be re-downloaded once the services are running. This is why we must manually purge the data from the patch auto-download database.

This article provides step-by-step instructions on how you can delete the filled-up patched from the repository.

 

Prerequisites

Microsoft Access

 

Process

  1. Stop all the LanGuard services.
  2. Close the LanGuard GUI.
  3. Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\GFI\LanGuard 12\Repository\English or the repository path.
  4. Delete any unnecessary files in this directory.
    • You can delete all the files in this directory path without issues, and these will be re-downloaded at another time.
  5. Navigate to C:\ProgramData\GFI\LanGuard 12.
  6. Find the toolcfg_patchautodownload.mdb file and make a copy of it somewhere else.
  7. Open the toolcfg_patchautodownload.mdb file created from the above step with Microsoft Access.
  8. Open the DownloadQueue table.
  9. Press Ctrl+A to select everything in this table and delete it.
  10. Go to File > Info > Compact and Repair.
  11. Rename the existing C:\ProgramData\GFI\LanGuard 12\toolcfg_patchautodownload.mdb to toolcfg_patchautodownload.old.
  12. Copy the edited toolcfg_patchautodownload.mdb from Step 6 to the C:\ProgramData\GFI\LanGuard 12\ directory path.
  13. Reopen the LanGuard GUI.
  14. Navigate to Configuration > Software Updates > Patch Auto-Download. Click the Here link.
  15. Either select the radio button to download Detected patches only or turn off Enable patch auto-download.
  16. Navigate to the Patch Repository tab and enable the option to Delete patches that have not been used for... and set it to either 6 months or 1 year.
  17. Restart all the LanGuard services, which were stopped in Step 1.

 

NOTE: A sample edited toolcfg_patchautodownload.mdb file is attached.