WMI with AD account

[ABlack]

I am trying to configure a Windows 2008 server for WMI monitoring using an Active Directory account. I have tried domain\account and domain\\account. Both times I receive UNKNOWN: Could not retrieve all required data. Failed to bind to uuid 4d9f4ab8-7d1c-11cf-861e-0020af6e7c57 - NT_STATUS_NET_WRITE_FAULT for all WMI.

In the security log through event viewer I am seeing that what is being passed to the server is domainaccount and a domain value of WORKGROUP.

Will this work with an AD account or do we need to create accounts on every server?

[lmiltchev]

Some people reported success, using "/" instead of "\\". Quote from the wmi help:

Use '/' (forward slash) instead of '\' (backslash). eg "C:/Windows" or "C:/windows/system32"

Have you tried this?

[lmiltchev]

Also, do you have any special characters in your password? If you do, remove them, and try again to test it.

[ABlack]

Thank you, the forward slash "/" allowed me to use the AD account.

For the record this account is currently using an all lower case password while we were troubleshooting this issue. Now that we know it works with an AD account we can change the password to something more secure and will be able to determine if that causes any future problems.

[lmiltchev]

I'm glad I could help! Please, let us know if "more complicated" passwords, special characters, etc. cause any issues with WMI. We would appreciate your feedback! Thanks!

[ABlack]

We tried a password with a "!" in it, this appears to be the delimiter in the config file, so that did cause an issue. We have not found any others.

[lmiltchev]

Thanks for the feedback!