I've resolved my issue, and discovered a bug.
I've found "c:\windows\syswow64\smartdeploy\clientservice.xml.console" as the file where the console name/address is located. If I use an IP address, communication is fine. If I use my machine name, it is not actually entered into the file at ConsoleIPAddress. Further testing shows if I use fully letter based names such as "tester", or "doiwork", the information will show up, however, we have a wide usage of underscores in our naming convention. If I set the console to be "testmachine", it will appear in this file, but if I set it to be "test_machine", it will not, thereby not communicating. On my workstation, I do use an underscore in the name. I have not done any further testing to see if it is just an underscore or if there are other concerns like hyphens.
In our case, most likely we would have to host this on a server for central use of multiple people (helpdesk, etc), and it wouldn't be a problem, but I will potentially have to hard code my IP to insure that this works, or change my workstation name to remove the "_"