Select Computer

Use this dialog to connect to another computer that you have administrator rights to in order to browse that computer's WMI or SNMP performance counters.

• Select counters from computer. Enter the computer name or IP address of the computer that you want to connect to.

Note: The following options are for WMI only. These options are not available when selecting an SNMP computer.

• Username. Enter the domain and user login for the account on this computer. If a domain account is used, then the expected user name is domain\user. If the device is on a workgroup, there are two possible user names: workgroup name\user or machine name\user.
• Password. Enter the password for the login used above. To monitor NT services on a XP machine with an account that has empty password, the XP's Local Security Settings might have to be modified. From Administrative tools > Local Security Settings, click Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options. Then right click on the setting: Account: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only > Properties > Disable.

Note: The following options are for SNMP only. These options are not available when selecting a WMI computer.

• Community name. Enter one or more community strings, separated by commas, that the device will respond to.
• Timeout. The amount of time (in seconds) you want the system to wait before failing the connection to the computer.
• Retries. The number of times you want the computer to attempt to make the connection to the selected computer.