Security Compliance

Patch Manager Server running out of Disk Space

This article describes how to clean up your C:\ drive to prevent low disk space issues.

First published date

10/17/2018 10:23 PM

Last published date

6/25/2025 7:02 PM

Overview

This article describes how to clean up the Eminentware Packages folder to prevent disk space utilization issues:

C:\Users\<DatagridServiceUser>\AppData\Local\EminentWare\Packages\
C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Patch Manager\Server\packages\publisher\

Product section

Patch Manager

Resolution

  1. Go to the Software Publishing and select the dropdown 
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  2. Select and step through each vendor option and filter by the file download status icon.
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  3. Sort by Creation Date to identify older updates or perform this from the All Packages node.
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  4. Use the Delete Content action to remove the downloaded binaries associated with those updates.
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Perform the following as an alternative resolution:

  1. Right Click Software Publishing and select Synchronize Settings
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  2. Select the Subscription Tab and uncheck the unwanted products  Then delete those packages from the Software Publishing Vendor lists. note: for the unneeded packages that use PackageBoot, you can recover about 1MB per package.
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  3. Use the Delete action to remove the downloaded packages.

If you delete a package in a catalog, vendor, or product that is configured for synchronization, it WILL be re-synchronized at the next Patch Manager synchronization event. This behavior is different from the WSUS server, which will never re-sync a deleted package