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Karl Mitschke

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More options Oct 9 2009, 3:43 pm

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From: Karl Mitschke <karlmitsc...@somestate.gov>

Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:43:59 +0000 (UTC)

Local: Fri, Oct 9 2009 3:43 pm

Subject: Re: Enable remote WMI programmatically?

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Hello msnews.microsoft.com,

> Please see the following article:

> http://www.activexperts.com/support/activmonitor/index.asp?kb=Q7250015

> Best regards,

> Frits de Boer

> ActiveXperts Software B.V.
> Web: http://www.activexperts.com
> "Karl Mitschke" <karlmitsc...@somestate.gov> wrote in message
> news:d66cd4c214de88cc13c21751cc8b@msnews.microsoft.com...

>> I have 600 Windows servers (99% Server 2003, 1% Server 2008)

>> I need to allow a domain user account to access WMI information
>> remotly.

>> So, I need a way to:
>> 1) Enable the firewall to allow remote wmi calls.
>> 2) Enable remote DCOM.
>> 3) Modify the WMI security to allow access to the Root\CIMV2
>> namespace for
>> my account.
>> I can do all this manually, but I don't want to touch all 600
>> servers.

>> Does anyone have a script or any c# code snippets to allow this?

>> Thanks

>> Karl

Thanks for the suggestion

From the responses I am getting, it's clear I am not very clear in my requirements.

I need to run this from computer 1 against computers 2 - 601

On computer 1 I can gather wmi data on the 600 servers if I provide domain
admin privileges.

If I login to any of the 700 servers, I can configure the remote WMI and
the firewall, and the permissions for CIMV2 to allow a Domain User account
- that's not a problem. I just don't want to have to login to all 600 servers.

Karl

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