{"id":4131,"date":"2026-06-08T18:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4131"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:01:23","slug":"policy-based-upgrades-and-installations-are-failing-with-error-status-download-interrupted","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/support-articles\/policy-based-upgrades-and-installations-are-failing-with-error-status-download-interrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy-based upgrades and installations are failing with error status \u00ab\u00a0download interrupted\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>We are using the policy-based installation option to upgrade our clients, from which we receive status &quot;Failed: download interrupted&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>By default WithSecure Policy Manager Server can handle\u00a0a maximum of\u00a050 simultaneous package download requests. If the network cannot handle the bandwidth required for 50 simultaneous downloads, the policy-based installation or upgrade operation might fail. This error can also be the result of, if you have a sub-network with low bandwidth, which tries to fetch packages for several minutes.<\/p>\n<p>For a network with low\u00a0bandwidth, that can not handle such a high network load, we recommend to\u00a0use the\u00a0 Policy Manager Proxy as an option.<br \/>Policy Manager Proxy offers a solution to bandwidth problems in distributed installations of Client Security and Server Security\u00a0by significantly reducing load on the networks. More about this topic\u00a0can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withsecure.com\/userguides\/product.html#business\/policy-manager-proxy\/16.00\/en\/concept_C8F4E585C8B240B2BF2ECF81772539B8-16.00-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Help Guide<\/a>. The Policy Manager Proxy can be downloaded from the WithSecure page:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.withsecure.com\/en\/support\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WithSecure\u2122 Download Center | WithSecure\u2122<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another solution, which can decrease the network load,\u00a0is to use the additional_java_args setting: <b>-DmaxSynchronousPackageRetrievalRequests=25<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This settings changes the maximum number of simultaneously handled package download requests for policy-based installations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can apply this change on your <span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">WithSecure Policy Manager Server<\/span> by following these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Command Prompt\u00a0as an administrator and use the following command to stop the <span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">Policy Manager Server<\/span> service:\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">Policy Manager 15: net stop fsms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">Policy Manager 16: net stop wspms<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open <b>regedit<\/b> and navigate to:\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">Policy Manager 15: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Data Fellows\\F-Secure\\Management Server 5<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">Policy Manager 16:\u00a0HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\WithSecure\\Policy Manager\\Policy Manager Server<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Select\u00a0<strong>additional_java_args<\/strong> and double-click it<\/li>\n<li>Enter the following string to Value Data:\u00a0<b>-DmaxSynchronousPackageRetrievalRequests=25<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Use Command prompt to restart the Policy Manager Server service:\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">Policy Manager 15: net start fsms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace;\">Policy Manager 16: net start wspms<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> If there is no existing\u00a0<b>additional_java_args<\/b>\u00a0registry entry, you can create one. Set the type as <b>REG_SZ<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are using policy based option to upgrade our Clients, from where we get an status \u00ab\u00a0Failed: download interrupted\u00a0\u00bb 33 failed \/34 un progress \/13 succeeded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-4131","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000013893","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 15:01:23","import_hash":"e8c0b247d04ad5cf9578b3789ddffb5e1061a59b","vanilla_article_id":32326,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/32326-policy-based-upgrades-and-installations-are-failing-with-error-status-download-interrupted","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":103,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}