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i want to monitor windows performance counters using WMI. Counters are like ASP.NET counters, Disk I/O, etc.
Does anyone know how to do that?

How to use authentication file in Windows WMI wizard?
where we do have to keep it, what is the format for content of that file?
which permissions are required to give to that file?

Yes you can mark it as solved.
Solution is to use domain credentials in domain/username format. Generally users make mistake and they use domain\username as per Windows Convention but here '/' needs to be used.

Yes it worked now with domain user. with local user its not working. but its fine, we can do this with domain user.
Thanks 'tgriep' and 'rkennedy' for your help.

i tried wbemtest and it successfully listed query results.
i also tried by logging into that server using my username and password and they are working fine, so there's no issue with supplied credentials.
Error is same as before.

I tried by restarting wmi service but still error is same.
My wmi user is added to local administrator group of that server.

Hi Robert, Here i attached the screenshot for which inputs I'm giving. WMI_input.png And also attached the error. WMI_error.png i read this post https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=32450 and didn't kept any special characters in my password. my password contains only alphanumeri...

i have configured my server for WMI monitoring exactly as per Nagios Document https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Monitoring-Windows-Using-WMI-and-Nagios-XI.pdf But when i do monitoring using Windows WMI wizard it gives me below error: The wizard detected that the WMI plugin returned a...