Hello Martin,
Thank you for the clarification.
That's a nice workaround, but not exactly feasible. The hosts are spread out over a large geophraphic area, so it would take quite a while to visit every site. Since they're offline, I can't get to them to update remotely.
I understand that updating your remote Hosts might be a time-consuming process in this case, but unfortunately, there's very little we can do to help you to resolve the issue unless the Hosts are updated to at least version 6.10.10.0 as in this case their current version is severely outdated and simply updating them will most probably resolve the issue, especially since we've switched to using 12-digits Internet-ID codes for Hosts a few version ago as well (namely, starting version 6.6.0.2).
In addition, we could've also examine the
Host log files to see if they might contain any additional error entries, but the log files are stored on the remote Host machine as well.
However, if there's a chance that there might be a remote user at one of the remote Hosts, you can ask them to
update the Host manually to the version 6.10.10.0 and see if this works for at least this one Host. You can also configure a
custom One-Click installation package and send it over to the remote user, so that they would only need to run it - Host will be updated automatically.
Please note that your Viewer of version 6.10.10.0 will automatically configure Host installation package of the same version (6.10.10.0).
And even if I could, I've found the remote updates have failed, requiring a complete reinstall, about a third of the time. Again, requiring onsite access to the systems.
Unfortunately, the failing remote update is probably caused by an outdated Host version as well since we've completely re-written the "Simple Update" process starting version 6.10.8.0. However, if you can log on to some of the remote Hosts, please try updating them using the
Advanced Update method (using the
Remote Install Tool) instead as it might be a workaround and a way to update Hosts remotely in this case.
If it's possible to update at least one remote Host to version 6.10.10.0 and the issue with the Host being offline still persists, please feel free to send us the Host log files for examination. You can send them to
support@remoteutilities.com or attach to a ticket in the
Ticket System.
Hope that helps.