https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WMI-Remote-Error/m-p/104429#M21999 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I am getting teh following error "Failed to fetch data: In handler 'win-wmi-find-collection': Unable to get wmi classes from host <MACHINE_NAME>. This host may not be reachable or WMI may be misconfigured." while getting data from remote performance monitoring.</MACHINE_NAME></P> <P>Regards<BR /> Anshu</P> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:25:30 GMT anshu2812 2012-07-20T16:25:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WMI-Remote-Error/m-p/104429#M21999 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I am getting teh following error "Failed to fetch data: In handler 'win-wmi-find-collection': Unable to get wmi classes from host <MACHINE_NAME>. This host may not be reachable or WMI may be misconfigured." while getting data from remote performance monitoring.</MACHINE_NAME></P> <P>Regards<BR /> Anshu</P> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:25:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WMI-Remote-Error/m-p/104429#M21999 anshu2812 2012-07-20T16:25:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WMI-Remote-Error/m-p/104430#M22000 <P>Hi,</P> <P>There are many reasons why you might experience this error.</P> <OL> <LI>Have you installed your Splunk instance as a user with appropriate access to the performance monitoring objects you are trying to monitor (<EM>not</EM> "Local System")?</LI> <LI>Have you granted the user that you installed Splunk as appropriate permissions to the performance objects you want to monitor?</LI> <LI>Are all machines in the same domain?</LI> </OL> <P>More information here:</P> <UL> <LI><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/InstallonWindows#Choose_the_user_Splunk_should_run_as">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/InstallonWindows#Choose_the_user_Splunk_should_run_as</A></LI> <LI><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/ConsiderationsfordecidinghowtomonitorWindowsdata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/ConsiderationsfordecidinghowtomonitorWindowsdata</A></LI> </UL> Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:40:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/WMI-Remote-Error/m-p/104430#M22000 malmoore 2012-07-20T18:40:35Z