Occasionally I get a failure to apply updates or a failed to reboot and the reason given in the event summary is : Minion is down or could not be contacted. Retrying the command immediately afterwards almost invariably results in success - which leads me to believe that the minion is not down and this is a time-out issue and that the minion maybe takes a while to "wake up " if it has been inactive for a time It's annoying. Do others have this issue - and is there a setting which will allow the Uyuni server to grant more time to the minion to respond? Many thanks T ___________________________________________________________ TIM SHAW - MSD IT Systems & Network Services Medical Sciences Division - University of Oxford email : tim.shaw@medsci.ox.ac.uk tel : +44 (0)1865 289480