Sophos Enterprise Console shows endpoint in status of "Awaiting policy from console". It may stay like this even after rebooting and restarting the RMS service.
In order to fix this try the following
- right clicking on the machines in question and select
‘comply with all group policies’
- re-install the agent
NB. you may need to remove duplicate entries in the SEC Database should the above not work
This from support
"We have seen the issue in some other cases recently where the re-installation has fixed the RMS issue then generally stays fixed. Normally this kind of transitory Corba/RMS problem is resolved by re-starting RMS/SAV or re-protecting the machine.
Although re-installing always seems to fix the issue, we are still trying to know what causes it in the first place."
In order to fix this try the following
- right clicking on the machines in question and select
‘comply with all group policies’
- re-install the agent
NB. you may need to remove duplicate entries in the SEC Database should the above not work
This from support
"We have seen the issue in some other cases recently where the re-installation has fixed the RMS issue then generally stays fixed. Normally this kind of transitory Corba/RMS problem is resolved by re-starting RMS/SAV or re-protecting the machine.
Although re-installing always seems to fix the issue, we are still trying to know what causes it in the first place."