[osiris] Re: Automatic acceptance of session keys?

[Nels Lindquist]

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Nels Lindquist wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> My apologies if this is covered in the documentation; the website is
> still down.
> 
> I've noticed that when a monitored system regenerates a session key (due
> to a reboot, etc.) that subsequent scans fail until an explicit
> connection is made from the management console to that host ("host
> [hostname]" is sufficient).
> 
> Is there no way to automate this process?  I have "lost session key"
> notification turned on, so I always receive a "lost session key" e-mail
> prior to the "scan failed" e-mails.
> 
> In an environment with many monitored hosts it would seem that having to
> manually re-connect every time a session key is lost (which can be
> pretty frequent for Windows hosts) is a stumbling block.
> 
> Am I missing something?  Thanks very much.

Just to add a little more info; the management console is 4.2.0 running
on Linux (CentOS 3, which is a RHEL 3 rebuild) and the scan agents are
4.2.0 running on Linux and Windows.

I receive the following notice from the scan failure:

> The scheduler produced the following error message:
> 
> session key negotiation with remote host failed.

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