RT Target Resources and Distributed System Manager

Hello all,
Does anyone know of some potential reasons why an RT target might not publish its CPU and memory usage?  This particular target is a cFP-2200 running a complete installation of FieldPoint 6.0.2 (RT 8.6) including System State Publisher.  For some reason I can't view the memory usage on this target and I haven't been able to figure it out.
Thanks in advance,
Jim

Hello Hillman,
Thanks for your reply!  I sort of
figured that this one would go by the wayside and not be answered. 
Actually, I'm not using RTSM; I'm using the Distributed System Manager
- It's a relatively new tool that ships with LabVIEW RT 8.6.  In my
humble opinion, I find it to be much superior to the RT System Manager
in its own way.  The only downside, really, is that you can't log with
it natively, but there are ways around that.
You've
got some great suggestions.  I definitely was using the correct IP, I
could target it with LabVIEW because I loaded my application on there,
and I didn't get any boot errors when I connected.  You're absolutely
right, too, that the CPU is always maxed out at 100%.
I
guess I was perplexed because, one moment I could see the resources in
DSM (is that acronym valid yet?), and after I reloaded the software
from scratch, I could see lots of variables on the target, but for some
reason the system resources weren't showing up.  After no one jumped on
the question, I went back to tweaking various settings and realized
that I hadn't rebooted after enabling VI Server.  In fact, I didn't
think that VI Server would be the issue and hadn't really thought of
checking there.  My reasoning followed that, if all of the other
variables showed up, surely it wouldn't be VI Server, but that fixed it.
I definitely appreciate your getting back to me, though.
Cheers,
 Jim

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