This article describes a native windows tool for testing WMI connectivity can be used to test connectivity. The tool described below is "wbemtest".
Start wbemtest:
You can point wbemtest to your computer:
An example query you can use to test the connection is to list all of the windows services:
select * from Win32_Service Note on Rights: If a system is locked down very often adding the user to the local Administrator group will not allow remote WMI access. To allow remote WMI access please see the following: The following works on Window 2003 R2 SP 2, Windows Server 2012 R2
wmimgmt.msc
). In the Security tab, highlight Root/CIMV2
, click Security; add Performance Monitor Users and enable the options : Enable Account
and Remote Enable
dcomcnfg
. At Component Services > Computers > My Computer, in the COM security tab of the Properties dialog click "Edit Limits" for both Access Permissions
and Launch and Activation Permissions
. Add Performance Monitor Users and allow remote access, remote launch, and remote activation.Remote Launch
and Remote Activation
privileges to Performance Monitor Users Group.
Notes:
Root
level, and recurse the permissions to the sub-namespaces via the Advanced
window in Security