[python-win32] AddMembershipRule(SMS_CollectionRuleDirect): Generic failure

[Tim Golden]

John Randolph wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Actually I had previously placed a delay between the new_rule creation
>>>>> and calling AddMembershipRule for another reason -- to make a clear
>>>>> break in the timestamps on the server side wmi logs.  Unfortunately
>>>>> the delay doesn't help.
> 
> Tim, all:
> 
> My "Generic Failure" error when calling AddMembershipRule(new rule)
> turned out to be permissions related.  My local Windows admins have
> segregated read and write access into two groups and my role account
> didn't have write access.   oops.
> 
> Unfortunately I learned no further details on how to decode "Generic
> failure" into "Bad permissions" for the list, though, sorry.   The WMI
> service logs look clean so you probably need to dive into the SMS
> logs.

Thanks for the update.

TJG