We are evaluating the OPManager-MSP platform (=a Management tool of Advantent) and installed it a w2k3 as a quest on VMware Server. The OPManager-MPS collects data from remote probes via https.
During our evaluation we do not get a stable connection to the probes and the central OPManager MSP server. The OPM-MSP server sends a continues stream of email messages that probes are up and down.
After a Webex session with the supportengineers of Adventnet they suggested that the problems could be associated with the VMWare platform and therefore suggested to install it on a dedicated machine.
Questions:
1) - Does this ring a bell to somebode else that has also have OPM-MSP running an a VMWARE server?
2) - What can one in general say about running a Remote Management platform on a virtual machine. What are the pittfalls?
Facts:
\- Supermicro H8SSL-i Opteron mainboard
\- AMD Opteron 180 2400Mhz 2MB Dual Core cpu
\- Vmware running on w2k3 host
\- Opmanager-MSP on w2k3 guest (same machine)
\- updated the Broadcom nic-drivers (as was suggested before on this forum)
\- only one Gbit nic (Broadcom) is in use
Hope somebody can help us with this issue.
Ashley Pietersen