In the course of replacing our windows xp automate host I have encountered at difficulty accessing values from the registry needed to run an automate job

This was working on windows xp without issue

I have found in study that we needed to modify the job login settings to use SAS and I have made that change

I have also verified that UAC is set to the default as needed

The error is basically "Could not read value "Value" from key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\" with the trailing info of course to the value.

The key is present and permissioned exactly as it was on the win xp host

Since I am not really finding much in the forums about this specifically I though I would seek help here. Any info is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

Jim

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James,
the steps below extract the agent name from AutoMate7 registry.
Can you run them ? And get the agent name in variable v ?

If it works, the problem could lie in the specific key you are targeting.
If it doesn't the problem could be in the AutoMate installation.

Category Survey AutoMate 7 version: Windows version:

Task Steps: (Right click, Select All, Copy to copy to the clipboard. Steps can then be pasted into the AutoMate Task Builder)
<AMVARIABLE NAME="v"></AMVARIABLE> <AMREGISTRY ACTION="read_value" KEY="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Automation\AutoMate 7\TaskService\Agent" VALUE="AgentName" RESULTVARIABLE="v" />

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Jean Delfosse - Automate Beta Tester
Win7 Pro 64 bits -Win XP Pro SP3 32 bits - AM8, AM7, BPA10, BPA9, BPA8, BPA7, AM6 Enterprise, AM4

Here are the results

(Step 0) Task Started.
(Step 1) Creating a variable "v"...
(Step 2) Starting Registry action...
(Step 2) Reading value "AgentName" from key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Automation\AutoMate 7\TaskService\Agent\"...
(Step 2) Finished Registry action.
(Step 2) Task Ended.

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James, this means tha AutoMate is fully able to read from the registry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
The value of the query was returned in variable v.

If your task is still unable to do so on your own target key, that for sure is a problem in the registry keys/values.
You could try on another target key close to the one you need, and see if it works.

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Jean Delfosse - Automate Beta Tester
Win7 Pro 64 bits -Win XP Pro SP3 32 bits - AM8, AM7, BPA10, BPA9, BPA8, BPA7, AM6 Enterprise, AM4

Jean,

This issue is a by product of moving our existing automate install off a windows xp machine in the course of retiring that OS from production.

I simply exported the entire registry block for the automate job and them imported the values (as the windows domain user that runs the process in automate).

I compare the keys and they are permissioned as they always were

The user context executing the automate scheduled jobs is an admin on the windows 7 machine

I suspect UAC somehow involved in this issue?

I have UAC set to the default setting which became necessary on windows 7 to use SAS to log the workstation into the domain when the scheduled job runs

Am very appreciative of your expert assistance. I am also pursuing this with our financial software vendor as we use automate in conjunction with our core banking software (we are a CU).

Jim

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Jim,
could you tell which exact key you are trying to access ?

If for instance it is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\level1\level2\level3
you could try capturing some value
from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\level1
then from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\level1\level2
then from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\level1\level2\level3
and see where it begins to fail.

Each registry key is associated with some Authorizations which you can visualize in right clicking the key in regedit and selecting "Authorizations".
Maybe your target key is missing some authorizations that prevent AutoMate to access it. This depends on how you created the subject keys.

See this picture which shows the path from one sample key to reach the authorizations and edit them.

Category Survey AutoMate 7 version: Windows version:

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Jean Delfosse - Automate Beta Tester
Win7 Pro 64 bits -Win XP Pro SP3 32 bits - AM8, AM7, BPA10, BPA9, BPA8, BPA7, AM6 Enterprise, AM4