LMS 4.2 configuration archive fails

[ww9rivers]

I have a not-so newly installed LMS4.2 Linux appliance. Here is my configuration archive summary:

	Config Archival Status	No. of Devices
	Successful	7
	Failed	1338
	Partially Successful	0
	Total	1345
	Configuration Never Collected	1338

So I look up a device in the Device Center, here is its Reachability Status:

Ping		Success
HTTP		Failed
SNMPv1 Read		Success
SNMPv2c Read		Success
SNMPv1 Write		Failed
SNMPv2c Write		Failed
SSHv1		Failed
SSHv2		Success
Telnet		Failed

Which is no different from that of a device that failed. An example of the description of those failures would read like this:

SSH: Failed to establish SSH connection to 111.222.33.44 - Cause: Authentication failed on device 3 times. TELNET: Failed to establish TELNET connection to 111.222.33.44 - Cause:  Connection refused.   PRIMARY-STARTUP config Fetch Operation failed for TFTP.

Which seems to mean that SSH does not work, which is false as I manually connects to the device from the LMS host successfully. Network devices access is authenticated against ACS servers using TACACS+ so there should be no problem with credential discrepency here.

Any suggestions for how I could further troubleshoot this? Thanks in advance!

--

Wei

[EDIT] -- The devices that LMS did succeed in archiving their configs are all ACE modules -- not sure if that makes a difference.

[ww9rivers]

It turns out that the failed "SNMPv2c Write" was the cause of the problem. Somehow, the SNMP R/W string that I believe that I have configured in my default credential set was not applied to the discovered devices.

Re-enter the SNMP write string into all devices in the DCR fixed it.

I didn't suspect the SNMP write failure because when I did a credentials checking succeeded on the failed devices, which turned out not to be real "successes". LMS simply did nothing when there is no credential configured and declairedit the check a success.

[bhoir_suhas]

yes that is perfect solution...