WMI Username

Harroguk · Post by **Harroguk** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:15 am

I had some problems getting Hosmonitor tests using WMI to work.

I am receiving an Access Denied error in KSHM.

Investigation shows that when testing using WMIC I receive "Invalid Global Switch" if I use a user with a hyphen in it.

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C:\Users\me>wmic /user:domain\SVC-User /password:password /node:192.168.10.10 computersystem list full

However if you place apostrophies around the user it will parse correctly

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C:\Users\me>wmic /user:'domain\SVC-User' /password:password /node:192.168.10.10 computersystem list full

From what I can tell Hostmonitor does not parse user names containing hyphens correctly for WMI tests.

Thanks

Harroguk

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:01 am

What version of HostMonitor do you use?
Windows?
Service Pack?
Antivirus monitor?

We just re-tested several versions of HostMonitor and Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 7 - we cannot reproduce the problem, as we see HostMonitor works fine.
Actually HostMonitor does not parse user name and it does not care about '-' character in user name.

Regards
Alex

Harroguk · Post by **Harroguk** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:09 pm

What version of HostMonitor do you use? v9.10
Windows? Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition
Service Pack? SP2
Antivirus monitor? No AV is running.

The only difference between the users is the use of a Hyphen in the username.

As stated when using WMIC the user with the hyphen in the name will not run correctly in the command unless you put ' around the user name. If you dont do this it thinks you are trying to use an invalid switch.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:04 pm

If you dont do this it thinks you are trying to use an invalid switch.

HostMonitor does not use any switches. It uses username that you provide.

As stated when using WMIC the user with the hyphen in the name will not run correctly in the command unless you put ' around the user name

This has nothing to do with HostMonitor. HostMonitor is not command line utility that gets username from command line.
You specified user name for WMI tests using Connection Manager, right?

What version of HostMonitor do you use? v9.10
Windows? Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition
Service Pack? SP2

We tested HostMonitor 9.10 on Windows Server 2003 Standard x32, works fine.
Will check Windows 2003 x64 system as well...
What Windows installed on remote(target) system?

Regards
Alex