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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
