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Issue: Sophos Central Admin – US-West region - Delays with the enforcement of Central policies on managed endpoints.

**Update 9** Root cause analysis KBA has been published: see knowledge base article for the latest.

**Update 8** As part of a routine database maintenance task customers may notice a few intermittent install and policy rendering failures. Please retry before contacting support. 7/17/2017 8:00 AM PST

**UPDATE 7** Some customers may notice a few intermittent install failures, please retry before contacting Sophos Support. 7/14/2017 2:00 PM PST

**UPDATE 6** Installations are being processed normally, service is restored. Please re-download installer from Central. 7/14/2017 9:00 AM PST

**UPDATE 5** Installations are now working as of July 13, 2017 19:00 UTC-5. See knowledge base article for the latest.

**UPDATE 4** New installs likely to still fail. http://centralstatus.sophos.com/#!/ has latest update. 

**UPDATE 3** System is now processing backlogs. Please see last updates here.

**UPDATE 2** Issue is ongoing, apologies. Impacts all areas within Central that rely on MCS communication between client and Central. 7/13/2017 8:00 AM PST

**UPDATE** Development has identified root cause and is working on a fix. 

Hello,

We are seeing delays with policy changes and enforcement in Sophos Central (US-West region) as well as installation failures due to inability of new endpoint installations to initially register. Our engineers are working to restore latency. Please note your endpoints remain protected. Updates will be provided on this thread.

KBA: https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/126477

Thank you,

Bob



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  • Why am I seeing the "One or more Sophos services are missing or not running" error message so often now?  I would really like a reason for this. 

    Is this message accurate? and if so, why are these services 'missing or not running'? I've checked on occasion and services 'appear' to be running.

     

     

     

  • Lance, if you go into services on your Windows machine, you will probably find that the Sophos Antivirus service has disappeared (90% of this issue) - or that all the Sophos services have been set to disabled , but you can't set them to manual or automatic (you get a denied message) even if you are an admin on the box. You can't uninstall as tamper protection is enabled but you can't update the machines policy to disable tamper protection because it won't connect to the cloud to update the policies, which don't work all the well even when all the services are enabled and not missing

  • Hi Karlos;

     

    I have another item for you. I just loaded up an new Windows laptop with Sophos Endpoint. But now in the Cloud Console Central, when I choose to look at a Device, (any Device) it will momentarily go into the device page, but before its even finished loading, it drops me back out to ALL Computers.

    This happens with ALL Devices now, so I cannot manage a single item.

     

    Seriously?? And this is Prime Time Production ready?? I think NOT!

    What n the hell is going on NOW??

    I cannot Manage MY STUFF.

  • Hi  

    Which location are you from? We'd like to know whether issue affects all regions or just some. You can also DM me location if you'd like to maintain privacy. 

    We are now currently doing some testing. I will update thread once I have updates.

    Thanks for letting us know.

    Best,

    Karlos

    Karlos
    Community Support Engineer | Sophos Technical Support

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  • Howiedog - we had this same issue happen to us earlier this week.  Support did not even know it was happening and had no explanation.  After a day and a half it fixed itself, but like the RCA, we will probably never be given any real details on why these things keep happening.  Hopefully it clears up for you soon.

  • Ok..this AM I can again manage my endpoints, so whatever the issue was seems to be good today.

    I have another question for us all: Laptops. For us,  these are often "off line" for periods of time. (eg:2 weeks >>)

    Granted its an Event, but is there a way to remove the BIG YELLOW exclamation mark because of inactivity??

    Its just annoying to log into console and see all these road signs glaring at you day in day out.

     

  • Same question.....can I stop these Yield Signs for appearing for devices that are purposely OFF-LINE for periods of time?? These are NOT ERRORs, it's only a state.

     

    One more thing. If I get one more email about services not running or missing I am going to scream.

    Can I turn this email alert OFF. I want these gone out of my INBOX NOW!! 

  • I agree with   This is insane Sophos - why is it so hard to get your alerting working correctly?

  • Sure Win,

    I asked 6 days ago with no reply still. In the KB that explained this issue it was said: "We have conducted a detailed review of the incident and have created a plan to improve operations and prevent this kind of issue in the future." Can you detail out to us the plan to improve your operations and how you're going to prevent this kind of issue in the future?

  • Karlos,

     

    Please review the questions in this thread. We need things to stop happening.....NOW!

  • Hi  We are going to have Chris Patel respond to this request on what plan is created to improve operations. It'll likely be posted in the other thread.  https://community.sophos.com/products/sophos-central/f/sophos-central/96889/rca-for-sophos-central-incident---late-july-early-august 

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