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What all settings to be taken care in the remote system to have WMI data collection to work correctly?

April 26, 2017collection correctly Data remote settings system WMI

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What all settings to be taken care in the remote system to have WMI data collection to work correctly?

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• RPC service should be running. • Windows Management Instrumentation service should be running. • If firewall is enabled, it should either be turned off or the ports 135 (DCOM/RPC) and 445 (WMI) should be enabled. Alternatively run the SIMS_WMIDiag diagnostic utility shipped as part of the installation.(located in the I am getting “COM Access Denied Error” for a Windows system which is configured for data collection using WMI data collection type. What could be the problem? Check if the credentials that are configured for the data collection (domain credentials or host credentials) have administrative rights. This is required to perform this action. I am getting “RPC Server Unavailable” for a Windows system which is configured for data collection using WMI data collection type. What could be the problem? First check whether all WMI related services are running. If not then start those services. Also check whether a firewall is blocking DCOM Protocol. If it is blocking, then configure