VCRM over WAN

[Clive Churchyard]

Hi There
Does anyone else have issues connecting to a VCRM that is on another network.

I want to use a central VCRM and all my VCA's connect using an IP Address. All networks are link via a VPN

[Mike Kanakos_1]

I run a similar setup and have no problems at all.

However, I can see the VCRM from the remote machines, but I would never attempt to push the actual updates over the WAN. I have very small pipes between our remote offices and it would surely saturate the bandwidth completely.

[Clive Churchyard]

Does it require specific ports as i cant get the VCA to communicate with the VCRM

[Mike Kanakos_1]

I think port 2381

[David Claypool]

One thing that can be done is to install a VCRM at each location and have just the VCAs of those machines use it as a reference. You still will be able to manage it from a single instance of HP SIM, but when you create the update task the machines will get it from the local VCRM.

[Clive Churchyard]

Excelent news thanks.

What are the system specs for VCRM. and does it use a lot of memory?

[Jon Ward]

According to the release notes at http://h200007.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00210168/c00210168.pdf , you need 256MB of RAM for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, or 128MB of Windows 2000.