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SamuelBaughan asked a question.

October 2, 2019 at 7:00 AM
Servers missing from Win Server assessment report
I just find that I have host servers missing from the Win 2019 Server Assessment SLM report. Apparently this is due to the "power state" of the VMs on those hosts. The VMs show as "Host Not Responding" Hosts that are powered off are flagged in the report as a potential risk but apparently, if the power state is anything else than Powered On/Off, then the report does not behave very well. Has someone else noticed that? This server is not showing at all in my report:
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  • SamuelBaughan

    Hi ,‌ Did you manage to set up the Hyper-V connector? I am still missing those VMs that have non-standard power states from my Windows Server Assessment report I am going to open a ticket.

    • carolai

      Hi ‌, Thanks for the reminder My colleague wanted to continue after his vacation. But it seems he didn't setup the Hyper-V connector for more servers. So I don't have any further updates, the powerstate's are still ok in our environment.

  • SamuelBaughan

    Actually, if I use the SCVMM PowerShell module on the VMM server, the VMs that are omitted in the report do show with an error: So I assume we would start by fixing our VMM error But still, I guess the Snow report should handle this situation by flagging the unexpected PowerState just as it does for VMs that are powered off:

  • SamuelBaughan

    Further troubleshooting shows that those "Host not responding" statuses come from locations with poor bandwidth. So this is a real situation, not just a VMM bug. I assume that if a VM reports as not responding, it should be assumed that it is ON by default, not OFF But this is debatable ...

  • SamuelBaughan

    I actually have 1,000's of VMs with one of the following records:

    • carolai

      Hi Samuel, We only have PoweredOn/PoweredOff as powerstate in our tblInventoryVirtualMachines. But we mostly have SIM for VMware vSphere in use. Our Hyper-V hosts are inventoried with the agent and so I also got the host-guest relationship. We started to use the Hyper-V connector on some less hosts up to now and regarding to this result I will then also use the SIM Hyper-V connector. Perhaps your results are from Hyper-V or another connector? 
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      • SamuelBaughan

        Hi Carola, Indeed they are all VMs running on Hyper-V . I thought that the Host/Guest relationship was provided by the Hyper-V connector only ... you say that the Snow Agent for Windows gets this information? So what is the Hyper-V connector for? Does it only get Cluster/Datacenter names?

        • carolai

          The Snow Inventory Agent on the host provides information of the host, installed software and hardware. The Snow Inventory Agent on the virtual guests provides the same and additionally sends the host name. In the past I only worked with that and had the host guest relationship. But suddenly I noticed, that I don't have that host guest relationship anymore in SLM. ( I think with 9.1 or 9.2) So I discussed this with Snow and I got a fix for our environment. Depending on the Release Notes of 9.3.3 I saw they activated that generally again. "You can now link a Hyper-V Windows virtual machine to its host based on the data inventoried on the virtual machine itself (PRB0042336, PRB0042391)." The advantage of the Hyper-V connector is, that it would also show you hosted, but not inventoried computers and additionally the powerstate of the VM. So I meanwhile started to introduce additionally the Hyper-V connector.
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          • SamuelBaughan

            That is very helpful! Thanks for that information Let me know if you see the VMs' Power State with standard data "PoweredOn/Off". If some show irregular data, you may find that those computers are missing from the Windows Server Assessment reports ...
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Servers missing from Win Server assessment report