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Monitoring Windows 2012 by WMI

Subject:	Monitoring Windows 2012 by WMI
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2016-09-15 17:17

Hey guys, having some more issues. I'm using version 4.2.4 as we are currently working on upgrading to version 5.

Earlier I posted a topic asking how to configure WMI monitoring. I believe I've figured that out (sort of), since I no longer receive Windows service/event log errors but the graphs aren't collecting any information. I configured WMI by adding the monitoring account into the DCOM Users, Performance Monitor Users, and Event Log Readers groups, and enabled the account privileges in WMI. The firewall is disabled. When I choose the option to model the device,one of the lines displays "WARNING zen.ZenModeler: WMI process discovery is currently not supported." Also I receive the following errors on the Windows 2012 servers:

The Open Procedure for service "ASP.NET_2.0.50727" in DLL "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_perf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.
The Open Procedure for service "BITS" in DLL "C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.
Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL NTFSDRV. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error code.
Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL SMTPSVC. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error code.

I'm also working on cofiguring WMI for 2008 servers and receive the following error:

The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to retrieve new Group Policy settings for this user or computer. Look in the details tab for error code and description. Windows will automatically retry this operation at the next refresh cycle. Computers joined to the domain must have proper name resolution and network connectivity to a domain controller for discovery of new Group Policy objects and settings. An event will be logged when Group Policy is successful.

Is there something that I am doing wrong or missing

Subject:	Can I ask why you are using
Author:	Jay Stanley
Posted:	2016-09-16 09:42

Can I ask why you are using WMI over the WinRM ZP

Subject:	I knew I forgot to add
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2016-09-16 10:09

I knew I forgot to add something. I did some research and came across some forums/articles mentioning WinRM. We have a seperate group that handles the installations/updates for Zenoss and, unfortunately for me, they have not installed the WinRM ZP for version 4.2.4 and do not plan on doing so. Hopefully we will be moving to version 5.1 soon as I am told that WinRM will be standard.

Subject:	That sucks. WMI is the worst.
Author:	Jay Stanley
Posted:	2016-09-16 11:40

That sucks. WMI is the worst. We have constant issues where we have to reset counters or restart WMI on the servers.

I wouldnt worry about the processes modeling. iirc, that part of the code was never really finished and was disabled.

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