Is it too much to ask that I just select all my servers on the network and say "you are now going to communicate, as you should, with this SIM server. I want all SNMP settings fixed and all machines to use the Version Control Repository on my SIM Server"
There has to be a better way. I am finding that I am forced to manually log in to every server and configure SNMP and Version Control. And even then it still does not want to communicate with SIM. I just dont get it.
Have you tried to use the options under the Configure menu in SIM? If you set Version control and SNMP settings on one machine you can then copy those settings to the other machines. I have done this several times and it works just fine.
'Configure or Repair Agents' is just what you need. It will use OS authentication to get the agents set to correctly communicate. Once that is done, you can distribute the Version Control settings with 'Replicate Agent Settings.'
David, thanks but thats not it. Here is what I do -
Select a machine from the list that is "system type=unknown". HS = green tick, VPM = 'i', ES = orange triangle. There is no product name or OS name. If I run a data collection on this machine it fails instantly. Once the machine is selected I choose Configure, Configure or repair agents. Then click next at the Verify Target Systems page. BTW on the this page the 'Tool launch OK?' is Yes. On the enter credentials page I enter an enterprise admin account (I have tried two different accounts both with the same results). Click next. I then untick, on the Configure or Repair Settings page, SSH and wbem events. I type in a basic password for older agents and click 'run now'. Heres the error I get....
Error when trying to establish SSH connection. Check username/password.
