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тАО01-14-2010 09:37 AM
тАО01-14-2010 09:37 AM
WBEM unprivileged users on Windows targets
Of course, it doesn't work. The server is tagged in SIM 5.3 as "unknown" and running an identify doesn't do much.
There is no way I'm putting an account with admin rights in the WBEM protocol setttings.
I followed the docs which ask to make a service account, put it in the Distributed COM users group, then run "configure or repair" agents to enable this service account in WMI. It still does not work.
Are there any tools to locally test a user on a target Windows server to be sure that it is set up correctly?
Thanks
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тАО01-14-2010 10:36 AM
тАО01-14-2010 10:36 AM
Re: WBEM unprivileged users on Windows targets
So I gave up on them and just use SNMP again - I don't even install that agent anymore. In my opinion (in it's current state) it is worthless.
In theory, when the WBEM agent installs, it is supposed to prompt you for an account to use. I believe that account can be a non-admin account, and then the installer gives it just the rights it needs (but I am not possitive on that). Then later, you use that same account to add the server to SIM when specifying the WBEM credentials. Someone let me know if I am wrong about this...
Hope this helps.
Nelson
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тАО01-14-2010 10:48 AM
тАО01-14-2010 10:48 AM
Re: WBEM unprivileged users on Windows targets
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тАО01-14-2010 11:27 AM
тАО01-14-2010 11:27 AM
Re: WBEM unprivileged users on Windows targets
So it is probably worth investing some time into getting it to work.
Plus if, like us, you're starting to use ESXi then there's no alternative.
There are certainly more steps with WBEM as you need to get the authentication right as well as subscribe to the events. Not sure if that's something that can be rolled out to a large number of servers easily.
There are some tools you can use, I found some tools taht used python and pywbem. I'm not a programmer but it didn't take me too long to at least verify some connectivity with our ESXi servers. Google pywbem and you'll get some good info.
More wbem aware tools are surfacing.
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тАО01-14-2010 12:12 PM
тАО01-14-2010 12:12 PM
Re: WBEM unprivileged users on Windows targets
At first glance, I'm not able to authenticate with a non-admin user even when following the documentation. Error reporting from SIM is null.
I don't have the energy to cut my teeth with WBEM integration on the Windows platform. I'll ask the Windows admin to switch back to SNMP and wait one more year.
Thanks for all your help
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тАО01-15-2010 12:54 PM
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