Usually when you change the name or IP of the robot, the "magic key" values for the probes (found in the controller.cfg file) are no longer valid. So then the probes fail validation. You can fix that in Infrastructure Manager by right-clicking and selecting Security, then Validate. You can multi-select probes when doing this.

If you want to automate that, you can use the probe_verify callback on the controller. Then you also need to use the probe_activate callback to tell the controller to actually start the probe again.

Looking at the code you've supplied it looks like you have unbalanced quotes.

Second, the PU commands you attempting to run just sets the robotip and restarts the controller (to apply the change). It doesn't fix any probes that are in error state.

I'm trying to automate this in a Lua script with the following:

rc = os.execute('"E:\\Program Files (x86)\\Nimsoft\\bin\\pu.exe" -u <admin_account> -p <password> -H <ip_address_of_robot> -P 48000 probe_config_set controller controller robotip <ip_address_of_robot> "" ""')

rc = os.execute('"E:\\Program Files (x86)\\Nimsoft\\bin\\pu.exe -u <admin_account> -p <password> -H <ip_address_of_robot> -P 48000 -R')

But when I run it in the script it won't find the PU to do the set config. When I run them individually directly on the cmd line, they will both run but the other probes on the server stay in error status. Any thoughts?

Simon

That's great but not much better than remoting to the robot server and making the change. Granted in our case it would get around the change management in place since the change would be within UIM. Grey area I know.

In a large installation though it just isn't good enough. We need to perform everything possible within the UIM framework. either IM, AC, or UMP. All else just adds to our cycles.

I have copied your info for later. I'm sure it will come in handy.

pu -u <admin_account> -p <password> -H <ip_address_of_robot> -P 48000 probe_config_set controller controller robotip <ip_address_of_robot> "" ""
pu -u <admin_account> -p <password> -H <ip_address_of_robot> -P 48000 -R