WMI and user account

[Yancy Ribbens]

Marc-André,

The Windows account to access WMI doesn't need to be an Admin account.

To use a limited account, that account must be granted access to Windows DCOM, as well as the 
relevant WMI class (CIMV2 most likely)

step by step instructions here:
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Monitoring_Windows_Using_WMI.pdf


Regards,

Yancy Ribbens
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On 2/27/2012 7:25 AM, MAD wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm have to find a way to get some advanced monitoring metrics for
> Windows boxes. As SNMP is not really usefull on Windows (sic!) and I
> really don't want to be messing with locales to get data from the
> perfmon, I was looking to use WMI requests. However, each doc I've seen
> seem to tell me I have to use an administrator account to connect to the
> WMI agent and extract my data.
>
> Is there a way to use an user account with restricted rights?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marc-André
>
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