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My question is: Does the user that i use for windows credentials must be member of administrators group?

prtg9 user windows wmi

Created on Jan 30, 2014 11:56:58 AM



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Afraid so - this is a limitation of the WMI component. We stumbled across the following link recently,as regards allowing access for non-admins, but haven't tested this yet:

http://unlockpowershell.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/script-remote-dcom-wmi-access-for-a-domain-user/

Created on Jan 31, 2014 1:42:23 PM by Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) ●3 ●3




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