Mass Deployment of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Windows Agent is Not Successful

The mass deployment of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Windows Agent is not successful on target machines.

Problem

After performing a mass deployment on Windows domain machines by using Group Policy Objects, the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Windows Agent fails to install as a local service.

Cause

Group policy settings might prevent the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Windows Agent from being installed correctly.

Solution

1. Edit the Group Policy Object (GPO) settings and redeploy the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Windows Agent agent.
   1. Right-click the GPO, click Edit and navigate to Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Logon.
   2. Enable the Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon policy.
   3. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Group Policy.
   4. Enable the Startup policy processing wait time, and set Amount of time to wait (in seconds) to 120.
2. Run the gpupdate /force /boot command on target machines.