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Wednesday, June 03 2009

Don't Use Windows Vista And Windows 2008 for Network Monitoring via WMI!

Many monitoring features of our PRTG Network Monitor software (as well as many other monitoring tools) are based on WMI. Everything is fine with WMI on Windows XP and Windows 2003, even for larger networks. But when Vista and Win2k8 come into the game it is a completely different story altogether. We have received reports from a number of users that ran into trouble when using WMI monitoring for larger networks - and all of them were using Vista or Windows 2008.

We tried to find out what aspects affect the performance of WMI monitoring. We selected ten servers and PCs in our testing lab. All of them ran a different version of Windows. We measured the WMI performance between them.

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