SSH ID authentication

[Mike Angley]

I have been getting errors in the logs on several servers showing my SIM 4.1 server is trying to authenticate the SSH ID "administrator" using windows authentication package, when it is polling using WBEM. This of course fails and is generating concern from my security department. Can I eliminate this from WBEM configuration or will that cause one of the polling tasks to fail? I have removed user and operator already. Why would the system try windows auth when this is a SSH ID?

Thanks for all your help

[Joel Rubenstein]

In the SIM global protocol settings if WBEM is enabled then when a new server is discovered SIM will attempt to connect to it using all the username / password combinations configured in the protocol settings. So you could configure one domain account which has access to WMI on all your servers and put that account in the WBEM global protocol settings to eliminate the failed logins.