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Security requirements for the Insight Providers

IMPORTANT: The standard user accounts that are used to access HP WBEM Providers management information must have access rights and security group memberships to enable remote access by HP SIM or other clients querying WMI data. An administrator account has sufficient rights and security group memberships to access HP WBEM Providers management information.

To enable remote access of the Insight Providers through WMI for non-administrator user accounts:

  1. Add the standard user account to the Distributed COM Users group.
  2. For the following namespaces, add the standard user account to namespace security:
  3. To add the standard user account to namespace security, complete the following steps for each name space:
    1. Right-click My Computer > Manage > Services and Applications.
    2. Right-click WMI Control.
    3. Click Properties.
    4. Select the Security tab.
    5. Select the namespace.
    6. Click the Security button. For the standard user, verify that permissions are set as follows:
      • Execute Methods
      • Full Write
      • Partial Write
      • Provider Write
      • Enable Account
      • Remote Enable
      • Read Security
      • Edit Security