Initiating a capcity planning session today at a customers site returned a number of windows host with "host is not up" when trying to run an inventory task. Strange thing is, that these hosts are up; they can be DNS resolved, they can be pinged. I am even able to RDP to them using the same (local administrator) account. I am unable to find the reason why capacity planner keeps reporting "host not up".
Has anyone seen this before, or any idea why this is reported (instead of bad username/password etc)?
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I agree with vmroyale...why dont you just open all ports for a time being and see if it works..this will atleast clear out if it is because of firewall....
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Anil
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All prots were openend on the firewall. There was no security issue to open up all ports for the capacity planner client machine, so that should not be the issue. And even then, when you have ports closed you do not get the status "host is not on", but something like "not reachable"...
