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Problems with WMI sensors

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I'm triying to monit basic stuff (memory, cpu ...) in my windows servers without an Admin account, had to do it because use an admin account for monitoring propouses it's against our security policy, i found out that WMI sensors had random behavior.

I have first triyed with your wmi tester and the account that we have created (WMI permissions configured) that the custom query:

SELECT DriveType,DeviceID,FreeSpace,Size,VolumeName FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE DriveType=3

return correct values.

Then i add the WMI sensor to the configured device in my prtg and get "Code PE016 - No result set"

So as a digest the only WMI sensor that works for me it's Memory sensor even when i have tested that others must work. The test that i made with the wmi tester obviusly it's executed in the PRTG server with the same user etc ... triying to replicate the query that the PRTG it's making.

I need further information on how to make prtg works without a user with non Admin permissions.

Best regards.

wmi- wmi-eventlog wmi-sensors

Created on May 23, 2019 7:28:00 AM



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Did you use the WMI Custom Sensor or the corresponding Windows Memory Sensors?


PRTGapi | Feature Requests | WMI Issues | SNMP Issues

Kind regards,
Stephan Linke, Tech Support Team

Created on May 23, 2019 12:19:43 PM by  Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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I'm using wmi windows memory sensor that comes with the prtg by default.

Created on May 23, 2019 1:34:43 PM



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i'm using predefined wmi sensors

Created on May 23, 2019 2:07:21 PM



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Do the other Sensors work when using an administrative account? Is the user you're testing this with also member of the various groups, namely Distributed COM Users, Performance Log Users, and Performance Monitor Users?


PRTGapi | Feature Requests | WMI Issues | SNMP Issues

Kind regards,
Stephan Linke, Tech Support Team

Created on May 23, 2019 2:19:01 PM by  Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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hi: yes, with an administrative account the sensors work perfectly and yes the account that we are using now is in those groups. best regards

Created on May 23, 2019 2:22:11 PM



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Please refer to this article which addresses this topic

Best regards,
Sven Roggenhofer [Paessler Technical Support]

Created on May 24, 2019 12:06:22 PM by  Sven Roggenhofer [Paessler Technical Support]




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