{"id":179,"date":"2011-09-07T08:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/configure-wmi-in-windows-from-op5\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T10:14:44","slug":"configure-wmi-in-windows-from-op5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/configure-wmi-in-windows-from-op5\/","title":{"rendered":"Configure WMI in Windows &#8211; from op5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This content is copied from <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.op5.com\/display\/HOWTOs\/Agentless+Monitoring+of+Windows+using+WMI#AgentlessMonitoringofWindowsusingWMI-ConfigureremoteWMIaccessinWindows\">here<\/a><br \/>\nAlways check this link to get the latest version.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;- Start instructions<br \/>\nAdd the user (s) in question to the Performance Monitor Users group.<br \/>\nStart > Run > wmimgmt.msc, WMI Control (right click) Properties. In the<br \/>\nSecurity tab, expand root and select CIMV2, click Security button (lower<br \/>\nright); (click) Add > Performance Monitor Users and enable the options:<br \/>\nEnable Account and Remote Enable, and Apply, OK.<\/p>\n<p>Start > Run > dcomcnfg.exe<br \/>\nAt Component Services > Computers > My Computer (right click, select<br \/>\nProperties) in the COM Security tab, click Edit Limits under Launch and<br \/>\nActivation Permissions. Add the Performance Monitor Users then check Remote<br \/>\nLaunch, Remote Activation, OK, Apply, OK.<\/p>\n<p>At Component Services > Computers > My Computer > DCOM Config (double click)<br \/>\nselect Windows Management Instrumentation (right click) select Properties,<br \/>\nunder Launch and Activation Permissions (click Edit button). Add the<br \/>\nPerformance Monitor Users an check Remote Launch and Remote Activation, OK,<br \/>\nApply, OK.<\/p>\n<p>Service check, authentication problems:<br \/>\nIn some cases you must also enable rights for the Service Control Manager.<br \/>\nGet the SID of the user you are authenticating with. From a command prompt<br \/>\nreplace  with the username, run: wmic useraccount where name=&#8221; get sid<br \/>\nUsing this command replace  with the user SID, and at the command prompt run:<br \/>\nsc sdset SCMANAGER<br \/>\nD:(A;;CCLCRPRC;;;)(A;;CCLCRPWPRC;;;SY)(A;;KA;;;BA)S:(AU;FA;KA;;;WD)(AU;OIIOFA;GA;;;WD)<\/p>\n<p>Domain based environments, authentication problems:<br \/>\nUsername should be: domain\\\\user<br \/>\nEscape special characters (like ? or !) in the password with &#8220;\\&#8221; (no quotes)<br \/>\nIn cases where you do not have permission to edit group policies, and NTLMv2<br \/>\nis the only authentication method allowed you may have to edit the specific<br \/>\ncheck_wmi check and append the following to force the use of NTMLv2:<br \/>\n&#8211;extrawmicarg &#8220;&#8211;option=client ntlmv2 auth=Yes&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;- End instructions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This content is copied from here Always check this link to get the latest version. &#8212;- Start instructions Add the user (s) in question to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-documentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}