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Hi all.

I switched all of my windows servers over to WMI monitoring. I thought I was all set but apparently not....Nagios is throwing this error for every service With the exception of a few listed as "Plugin timeout". The u:p pair that's supposed to be used to access these is located in Active Directory and is a domain user so I should have access to all the servers. How do I fix these errors? Are there additional permissions needed at the Active Directory level?

Hi cwscribner,

is the domain user a member of the administrators group? I would use wbemtest and try a wmi query to ensure you can connect in a windows environment.

for example,

start > run > wbemtest > connect

namespace = \\remotemachine\root\cimv2
username=<username of domain user>
password=<password>

if wbemtest can't connect, nagiosxi won't be able to monitor either.

-Yancy

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The username needs the domain before the username. e.g. [domain]/\[user] mydomain/\Nagios Forward slash is needed for escaping the backslash.
Ex: ./check_wmi_plus.pl -H 192.168.1.23 -m checkcpuq -u domain/\Nagios -p password
OK - Average CPU Queue Length 0.0 (3 points with 1 sec delay gives values: 0, 0, 0)|'Avg CPU Queue Length'=0.0;

This might be a good one to add to the FAQs

Box 293, I 100% agree. Such a simple solution that has sucked up weeks of time.