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Jason_TMBL
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May 15, 2023
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AUSST v6 Cleanup, silent run option?

  • May 15, 2023
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We have AUSST running incremental downloads triggered via scheduled tasks; previously with earlier versions we also had it performing a cleanup run monthly.

 

With the v6 version of AUSST, it seems the cleanup command now must run as a sepetate task outside of the incremental run... this would be fine however it prompts for a 'are you sure y/n?' when running it; so doesn't play nice with running via a Scheduled Task. Is there an undocumented argument we can include to bypass the 'are you sure' check?

Cheers!

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    Correct answer Jason_TMBL

    I use a Powershell Script and pipe Echo Y to the AUSSTool.

    echo Y | C:\Adobe\AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="C:\Adobe\AUSST" --cleanup --filterProducts="..."

    Just spotted this reply.

    Noticed there was a new version of AUSST released and its now got a --silent option with the cleanup command, to no workarounds needed anymore.

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    SuJoshiCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    May 15, 2023

    @Jason_TMBL Unfortunately, there is no option to command to bypass the option. Considering cleanup as critical functionality, which will lead to deleting of files present on the system, the engineering team has designed cleanup functionality in such a way that AUSST will ask for user consent before the cleanup so that the user is aware of such critical action.

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    Jason_TMBLAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 15, 2023

    Thanks for the confirmation. Could this be considered to be added in a future release?

    Having a commandline option available to skip the prompt would help people trying to automate maintaining the AUSST server. Give admins the choice, if we want to be prompted, we'll run it manually (not that the prompt even tells you what updated  will be deleted)... if we accept the risk of deleting files automatically each month, we'll automate it & skip the prompt. 


    As it is now, since we can't exclude MacOS updates from being downloaded, we're using a lot more storage than we need already. Having to manually run the cleanup process isn't ideal for a small team who are trying to minimize the amount of manual tasks they need to do each month.

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    SuJoshiCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    May 16, 2023

    @Jason_TMBL Sure, I have added your comment and this thread to a feature request that I have raised with the engineering team internally. Once we have enough requests from different organizations, I can request the backend team to prioritize it.

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