Service Account password reset for Windows WMI monitoring?

So, We have changed the password here:

• Go to SAM Settings. On the right-hand side under “GLOBAL SAM SETTINGS”, click on “Credentials Library”.

Now , we monitor nodes (windows workstations). There are many of them. How to change the password for the service account for these?

The service account uses the same password for each node. So are you sayin g this?

1. Update the password on the main solarwinds server

2. Update the password in the credential library

Then there is nothing else to update as the nodes will get them?

No.
1 - Reset the password on your Domain controller using Active Directory users and computers. https://youtu.be/UnWi79OfTS4
2 - Update the password for the accounts on Solarwinds to the one you used in step 1.
3 - Test the credential on SW and if it succeeds, you should be done.

Solarwnd1 - are you using an Active Directory account for WMI or are you using local windows workstations accounts?

The service account is a domin service account. Does that help?

Solarwnd1  do you know what Active directory is and how Domain controllers work?

No exactly.

I suggest you find someone in your company that does, it will make your life so much easier. I cant fathom how you have been given this task with no one showing you how to reset the service account password in the first place. And with your lack of knowledge I highly doubt you have administrative/delegated administrative access to the domain controller.

https://youtu.be/nKcrVtvZvpk  might be worth having a look at this video.

Just to throw in a potentially useful tool in the thread, there are some widgets in my admin dashboard specifically for seeing and editing which credentials are used in npm and Sam

thwack.solarwinds.com/.../viewexporter-ps1

The windows servers get the update via active directory. They don't care what solarwinds has configured.

For the solarwinds nodes themselves representing the servers, they are using the stored credential, which is only needed to be changed once in the location you have in the pictures above. As long as all of your nodes are using 1 WMI credential, you make the change in AD, then update the SolarWinds credential to match AD. You can test it there too to make sure it works after your update.

The windows servers get the update via active directory. They don't care what solarwinds has configured.

For the solarwinds nodes themselves representing the servers, they are using the stored credential, which is only needed to be changed once in the location you have in the pictures above. As long as all of your nodes are using 1 WMI credential, you make the change in AD, then update the SolarWinds credential to match AD. You can test it there too to make sure it works after your update.