Yes, that's exactly it; it's always fun when Mickey changes the plumbing...
Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing & IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juan Ingles Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ARS 7.6.03 Licensing on Windows Server 2008 R2 Chris, I ran across something that I dismissed as "silly" that I think might be related.... I am setting up a new 2008 VM to try out the new 7.6.3 stack installer. After installing the OS I copied over bginfo, a nifty MS internals utility that prints host info on the desktop. It really helps when managing multiple machines to know at a glance what machine you are connected to and basic system info like disk usage, patch level, installed memory, etc. Well, guess what it did for the network info... Instead of listing the one IP address, it listed ALL the network nodes, including the disabled ones. I got a list that looked something like: <none> <none> <none> 192.1.1.1 <none> <none> After some investigation, I discovered thet the values are fed by a WMI query that queries IP addresses. Previous to 2008, this query returned only the active addresses/NICs, but starting with 2008 that query now returns everything. Fixing this for bginfo turned out to be easy enough -- I created a new item and added the WMI query with a qualification that returns only active records. I noticed that my active NIC was not the first in the list, so I'm thinking that I might come across the same problem you did when I go to license the server. I will report my results when I get there. Juan ingles _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
