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Testing WMI Connectivity with WBEMTest in the SolarWinds Platform

How to test WMI connection by using Windows Management Instrumentation Tester tool (WBEMTest).

First published date

10/18/2018 6:21 AM

Last published date

9/19/2025 3:46 PM

Overview

This article provides steps to use the Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation Tester tool to check WMI connectivity.
Confirm the following on your WBEMTest:

  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is enabled and functioning properly.
  • The remote server is accessible through an RPC connection to run the WMI queries.

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Testing Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) connectivity

Complete the following task to ensure your SolarWinds Platform server supports WMI connections to target computers. WMI connectivity is required to enable WMI monitoring.
Note: Local test can be performed for agent-based monitoring 

  1. RDP to SolarWinds Platform server as an administrator
  2. Open Run and enter wbemtest.exe
Run WBEMTest.exe

  1. Click OK
  2. Click Connect on the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester window.
Connect to target node

  1. Enter \\testsrv\root\cimv2 in the Namespace field.
Enter credentials and target

  1. Replace in the above example with the actual Hostname or Primary IP Address of the target remote server.
  2. Enter a username in the User field in format domain\user and the password in the Password field.
    Note: User credentials are for accessing the remote computer and must have access to that remote computer. This may require you to enable remote procedure call (RPC) protocol on the remote computer.
  3. Click Connect.
  4. Click Enum Classes. 
Enum Classes

  1. Select the Recursive without entering a superclass name, and then click OK.
Recursive selected

  1. The Windows Management Instrumentation Tester generates a list of classes. If the list does not appear, see the Troubleshooting WMI Connectivity link from Microsoft at the end of this article for more information.
List of classes

  1. Click the Close button, and then click Exit. 

Troubleshooting Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) connectivity

Microsoft provides the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester tool to test WMI connectivity on a system. The wbemtest.exe file is installed in the WBEM directory of your Windows system folder. More information on the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester is available on the Microsoft Developer Network website: