Wmi - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 User Manual

ADM User's Guide
Solaris and HP-UX
Solaris and HP‐UX systems do not include built‐in SNMP agents. You can download and install Net‐SNMP
from http://net‐snmp.sourceforge.net and configure it as in Linux.
BEA WebLogic Agent
The BEA WebLogic application server comes with its own SNMP agent that is built into its installation.
To enable the BEA WebLogic application
1 In the WebLogic management console, select Services > SNMP.
2 Select Enabled.
3 Restart the application server.
N If there is another SNMP agent running on the same machine, such as the native agent of the operating
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system, it is recommended to change the port used by the WebLogic agent. In the same location in the
management console, set the port to the desired port.

WMI

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a proprietary Microsoft technology for modeling, querying,
and managing the configuration of Windows hosts. WMI follows a public modeling and management
standard known as Common Information Model (CIM), as well as another related standard called Web‐Based
Enterprise Management (WBEM).
The WMI software component is built into all Server editions of the Windows operating system since the
Windows 2000 Server. It might or might not be installed by default as part of Windows XP, but it is easily
installed there as an add‐on.
WMI is modular and extendable: common information about the host is obtained with the basic built‐in WMI
module. Additional components called WMI providers is installed to model and query in detail the
configuration of services such as IIS Server, Active Directory, BizTalk server, and so on.
The WMI component in Windows is based on Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) technology, and is
queried both locally and remotely. Remote queries are through RPC access to the WMI component, using the
remote access flavor of the COM technology known as Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM).
Detail Discovery with WMI
ADM can perform Detail Discovery using the WMI protocol. When creating a WMI Detail Discovery policy,
you need to specify a user name, password, and domain name. These are used by the WMI component to
authenticate and authorize access to the host information.
N When using a non domain user to perform WMI discovery, specify "WORKGROUP" in the domain
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field.
WMI discovery is used for discovering machines that run the following operating systems: Windows 2000
Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2008, and Windows XP SP2.
I The following steps are new to ADM 6.0 and later versions as it discovers more information
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compared to 5.3. If you have already set up your servers for WMI discovery using ADM 5.3, you need to
perform the additional steps listed under "Setting Execute Permissions for Used Executables" on page 43.
I The permissions required to complete the same WMI operations might vary between different
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versions of Windows and different Service Packs installed. Some windows versions such as Windows 2003
Server with SP2 require an account with local administrator permissions in order to successfully complete all
queries performed by ADM.
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