Parallax Abstraction Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 (edited) I just signed up for Pulseway to monitor a small client of my side business. I am in the process of setting up patch management for workstations. I would like the systems to prompt the end users to reboot upon installing updates but Pulseway seems to be very restrictive in how it lets you set that up. It looks like all I can do is have it reboot immediately or give the users a 5 minute warning with a generic message. I work with a competitor product at my day job and it allows us to specify whatever message we want, set whatever timer amount we want and allow the users to defer the updates as many times as we want or force a reboot after a certain number of deferments. It does not appear Pulseway provides any of this customizability. It would be very nice to have these options so I can have choices other than forcing end users to reboot during the day or having systems that potentially go days without a reboot after installation. Thanks! Edited February 13, 2020 by Paul removed the competitor product name Martti Nuudi, Michael-Motors and Christopher 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Paul Posted February 13, 2020 Administrators Share Posted February 13, 2020 Hi there, Thank you for your feedback. I concur that our mechanism of informing users of upcoming reboots is rudimentary however we'll definitely work on improving it. -Paul Parallax Abstraction 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-Motors Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 This would be really useful for us too. We have many team members who spend whole days in meetings or training so when the 'your getting rebooted' appears with no option to delay it's problematic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick K Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Any word on this? I have a few customers now complaining about it because with timezones patches are released just as our business day starts. Lots of forced reboots during 9am meetings. I'll be disabling the feature for now and instead have to rely on a powershell script to check for pending reboots and leverage this script to prompt for a reboot. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Custom-PowerShell-GUI-7c7fbda8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudomtha Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 On 8/13/2020 at 5:29 AM, Patrick K said: Any word on this? I have a few customers now complaining about it because with timezones patches are released just as our business day starts. Lots of forced reboots during 9am meetings. I'll be disabling the feature for now and instead have to rely on a powershell script to check for pending reboots and leverage this script to prompt for a reboot. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Custom-PowerShell-GUI-7c7fbda8 Were you able to successfully use that script as a workaround? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tapwaterme Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Hi, Is this any further in 2021? We're desperate for some of the basic features Parallax mentions. sudomtha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ageless_ZA Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Is this any further in 2022? Running patch management manually at the moment as the rudimentary option to notify users 5 minutes before the reboot is cumbersome and would end in many strongly worded emails to my department. (and has done already) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenTucker90 Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 On 6/3/2022 at 6:51 AM, Ageless_ZA said: Is this any further in 2022? Running patch management manually at the moment as the rudimentary option to notify users 5 minutes before the reboot is cumbersome and would end in many strongly worded emails to my department. (and has done already) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 I´m on this topic too, since I´m an MSP from Germany, would be great if there would be an ability to set own texts in the users language for notifications. Or texts at all like when a chat window is opened the text could be displayed in german would be perfect (think msp´s from other countries would love to see this as well for they language) Jamie Taylor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Taylor Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 Kindly leave your suggestion here: https://pulseway.featureupvote.com/, our dev team will work on the prirorities as requested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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