Basic Authentication Settings for all WMI Sensors

In order to be able to monitor remote machines the WMI sensor needs an Active Directory account or a system account on the monitored PC to get access to the WMI interface.

The Login Data fields are used to provide authentication information in order to connect properly to the machine to be monitored. Generally, when monitoring local sensors (i.e. on the machine running the selected IPCheck probe) this information is not required.

Hint: If you do not enter authentication data IPCheck will use the account that the “ipcheckprobe” service runs under. By default this is the “local system” account which enables IPCheck’s probe to access the WMI interface of the machine it runs on. It may be a good idea to configure the account for the probe service to an administrator account of your domain, then IPCheck would be able to monitor all Windows systems of your domain using WMI without the need to enter authentication data in the web interface.

Note: If you want to access a remote machine, the sensor’s parent server configuration must reflect the target machine’s name in the DNS / IP address entry!

If the machine in case is part of a different domain, please also provide the domain name in the respective field when adding the sensor.