Vendor & protocol setup · 6 min read

Monitor Windows hosts over WMI

Poll Windows Server metrics natively over WMI, without installing a third-party agent on every machine.

What you'll need

  • A Windows Server host with WMI enabled (on by default)
  • A service account with local Performance Monitor Users membership
1

Create a monitoring service account

Use a dedicated, least-privilege account rather than a domain admin credential; membership in Performance Monitor Users and Event Log Readers is enough for standard metrics and logs.

2

Open the required ports

WMI uses DCOM, which needs TCP/135 plus a range of dynamic RPC ports; on a segmented network, either open the dynamic range or fix it to a narrow band in Windows' RPC configuration.

3

Add the host in Linivo

In Devices > Add device, choose WMI, enter the service account credentials, and Linivo polls CPU, memory, disk and the services you select to watch.