It looks as if Windows 2003 has increased security for the WMI
provider... I attempted to add additional permissions for our service
account, but to no prevail. I will continue investigating, but wanted to
let people know what I had found. This is why adding the user to
administrators solved the problem -- they have full permission to
read/write WMI...

Zakir 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Bray
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 4:00 PM
To: General discussion of using zenoss system
Subject: Re: [zenoss-users] Zenwin - Access Denied

Gary,

test the connectivity to the wmi services using the tutorial Eric N.  
wrote this week. Its located at:
http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/wiki/HowToTestWmi

Try it out and see what comes of it.

Drew
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On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Blok, Gary wrote:

> I have several 2003 servers and a couple of XP SP2 boxes.  The XP 
> boxes work perfect with Zenwin, and I can monitor all of the windows 
> services, but the 2003 server boxes I keep getting "Access is 
> Denied"...
>
> C:\zenwin>python zenwin.py -C etc\zenwin.cfg 
> INFO:zen.SendEvent:SendEvent thread started.
> INFO:zen.zenwin:reloading configuration WARNING:zen.StatusTest:blue 
> wmi connection failed: Access is denied.
> WARNING:zen.StatusTest:brown wmi connection failed: Access is denied.
> WARNING:zen.StatusTest:tan wmi connection failed: Access is denied.
>
>
> C:\zenwin>python zenwinmodeler.py -C etc\zenwinmodeler.cfg 
> INFO:zen.SendEvent:SendEvent thread started.
> INFO:zen.zenwinmodeler:reloading configuration 
> INFO:zen.zenwinmodeler:collecting from 00-gblok using user 
> INFO:zen.zenwinmodeler:collecting from 21-LAKETECHOMNI using user 
> WARNING:zen.zenwinmodeler:skipping blue has bad wmi state 
> WARNING:zen.zenwinmodeler:skipping brown has bad wmi state 
> WARNING:zen.zenwinmodeler:skipping tan has bad wmi state
>
>
> Everything is on the same domain, so I'm not sure why the XP computers

> are working, and the 2003 Servers are not.
> Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Are there any How-Tos of exactly how to configure WMI on servers to 
> work with zenwin/zenoss?
>
> Gary
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