Add a Windows host via WMI

Create a local (or domain) account with membership in the Performance Monitor Users and Distributed COM Users groups, full administrator rights aren't required for standard metric collection.

Confirm Windows Management Instrumentation is running (it is, by default, on Windows Server), and that Windows Firewall allows WMI from your collector's IP.

# PowerShell, run as Administrator
Enable-PSRemoting -Force
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Zynty WMI" -Direction Inbound -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 135 -Action Allow

Choose WMI as the protocol and supply the domain\username and password for the monitoring account you created.

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CPU, memory, disk and named-service status should appear within the first polling cycle (default: 60 seconds).