How to delegate WMI access to a service account

[SAKET_5]

Hi All,

Can anyone recommend on how to delegate access rights to a particular service account (a user account that is used by a monitoring deamon to connect to Windows 2000/2003 hosts)to extract WMI data from the hosts?

We know that if we add the user_account to the "Administrators" group - everything works as expected. However, we would not like to unnecessarily grant administrative access rights to a service account if there is a way we can avoid it. So, essentially if we can just grant WMI access to this service account that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Saket.

[Igor Karasik]

Saket,
Read this article, "Security" part :
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2004/March/WMIEventDetecting.asp
Maybe it will help you.