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What are the ports used for Event Monitoring

I have a 2003 server I'm trying to monitor they event logs on. Although I need to have the Windows Firewall on. I know this is the problem because when I turn it off I can monitor the event logs. I have found the ports that IP monitor is using but they are all very random. Is there a way to specific different ports for monitoring the event logs with ipmonitor?

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mdiotte

Hi lespaulsf,

The event log monitor in ipMonitor uses WMI which dynamically allocates ports on connection. However with the windows firewall you should be able to specify an exception.

Take a look at the WMI trouble shooting guide we have produced for another Solarwinds product APM as it should all be relevant to ipMonitor.

Take a look at page 13 "Add a Windows Firewall Exception for Remote WMI Connections".

www.solarwinds.com/.../APMWMITroubleshooting.pdf

Matt

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mdiotte

Hi lespaulsf,

The event log monitor in ipMonitor uses WMI which dynamically allocates ports on connection. However with the windows firewall you should be able to specify an exception.

Take a look at the WMI trouble shooting guide we have produced for another Solarwinds product APM as it should all be relevant to ipMonitor.

Take a look at page 13 "Add a Windows Firewall Exception for Remote WMI Connections".

www.solarwinds.com/.../APMWMITroubleshooting.pdf

Matt

lespaulsf

That seemed to do the trick. Where does it place it in the firewall under. I don't see any exceptions that changed on the windows firewall? Although now it seems to work.

mdiotte

There is a command for listing the firewalls config: netsh firewall show config

For more info you could check out this Microsoft KB article:

support.microsoft.com/.../875357

Matt