I'm trying to get our OPS team to enable WMI access to our MSSQL cluster, so we can monitor the basic server metrics with the DB agent, however they are a bit reluctant to follow the documentation WMI access. The following are the heading for the WMI documentation.
- Requirements to Monitor Windows 7 and Higher Systems (agent running on Unix-like platform)
- Additional Requirements to Monitor Windows 2012 and Higher Systems (agent running on Unix-like platform)
- General Considerations for all Platforms
We are trying to access a Windows 2012 r2 machine running MSSQL from a Windows 2008 r2 machine - none of them running the db agent on a Unix-like platform.
So the question is, what is the bare minimum configuration to enable WMI on a Windows 2012 r2 machine?