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WMI Issues

I have checked the WMI remote access on two of my SQL servers and still cannot see them from the Solarwinds server to monitor. They are both running SQL 2005 and when I perform the WMI WBEMTEST from the Solarwinds server, I can see the keys that I belong to the default SQL monitor. When I choose to build a custom app, I use their IP address to create a new WMI Monitor and none of the SQL information is listed.

I have followed the instructions in the WMI error doc at the top of this forum to no avail. I don't think that WMI is an issue since I can use wbemtest from the Solarwinds server to access the SQL server.

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cnorborg

Every WMI issue I've encountered so far has been security related. ie: the credentials I was using not having permissions. The easiest way to test this is to put in administrator credentials and trying with that, if it works then, you know its credentials related.

I believe you control WMI credentials via "wmimgmt.msc".

battlepaw

I can see the WMI counters from the Solarwinds machine, just not the SQL ones. When I use the WBEMTEST from the Solarwinds server, I see everything. Using APM I cannot see any of the SQL ones but just about everything else. All the permissions are the same on this server as they are from the SQL servers that are being polled correctly.

josh.clark

Can you post a screen shot of the wbemtest results from the Orion server connecting to the SQL server? What bit-ness is SQL Server and the OS running SQL Server (32 or 64)?