Troubleshooting WMI
Use these instructions to verify WMI is working and returns data properly.
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WMI
Spotlight Cloud uses WMI queries to retrieve performance counter information from Windows Server hosts. Spotlight Cloud needs access to this information before it can connect to Windows servers (and Windows Server hosts of SQL Server connections).
How to configure WMI with minimum required user permissions
In some environments it may not be feasible for Spotlight Cloud to connect to the Windows server with an account that is a member of the Administrators group. The following instructions are provided for these environments.
How to limit the number of ports used by WMI
In order to effectively use WMI between fire walled hosts you can limit the number of ports used by the DCOM subsystem and only open those ports.