Quick Tip: Using HP ProCurve Manager

So, normally i reserve posting quick tips on technical details here.  But, i spent hours troubleshooting an issue and wanted to post it SOMEWHERE so the search engines pick this up.  And it's less than well documented.  I'm hoping by posting here someone doesn't spend the time I did trying to fix this.

If you use HP ProCurve Manager to manage your ProCurve switches, you know its a pretty powerful product.

There's a security feature that you need to modify if you want to have another workstation view the information from your ProCurve Manager server.  By default, no other workstations can connect to your PCM server, such as an Operator or extra monitor in your NOC.  If you install PCM on a workstation, and try to connect to the PCM server, you will receive a message:  ": the server would not authenticate this client, you may need to upate the list of authenticated clients on the management server

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A search online and in the help yields nothing.  So, here's what to do...

On the server, locate the file ACCESS.TXT.  Edit this file.  It will probably be empty.

add a line of the address of the workstation that wants to connect, or even easier, add the subnet of workstations that you trust to connect (like 10.*.*.*)

restart PCM client on the workstation, and you should now be able to connect...  hope that helps.