Requirements for Monitoring Windows Machines

Target machines with Windows Vista and newer client operating systems

Make sure that the following preconditions are met to be able to monitor the respective remote systems:

The Remote Registry service must be running on the machine that you want to monitor. This service does not run by default on Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines.

Target machines with Windows 2003 and newer server operating systems

• User is in Administrators group
• User is in the Network Configuration Operators and Performance Monitor Users groups
• User is in Users group, and the path Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows is added to one of the following Network access settings:
  • Remotely accessible registry paths setting
  • Remotely accessible registry paths and sub paths under Local Policies/Security Options setting

This approach works well for tests with machines in different trusted domains and with users from those domains.

Target machines with Windows XP operating systems

• Simple File Sharing is disabled
• READ access to the following files on the remote computer:
  • %SystemRoot%\System32\Perfc009.dat
  • %SystemRoot%\System32\Perfh009.dat
• READ access to the following registry keys on the remote computer:
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\winreg
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib