In the driver help of Microsoft Platform it states you need to do dcom configuration.
As efforts have been done by the user to get rid of dcom on the production servers, what would be the impact of not doing the dcom configuration?
Can we get rid of the dcom configuration?
Looking a bit further I see there’s an alternative for DCOM: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/about-wmi#managing-remote-computer-systems-with-wmi
“An alternative is to use Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which obtains remote WMI management data using the WS-Management SOAP-based protocol.”
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winrm/portal
Not sure yet if this is just something to be configured on the server.
Microsoft servers can be managed via WMI protocol (which requires indeed potentially DCOM configuration), or alternatively via SNMP. Or is the latter not an option?
The question was to be sure if wmi really needs dcom to be configured or not. Is this still needed on server 2016 as it was on server 2003?
If it’s the case then either dcom needs to be configured anyway or we move to snmp.
If I understand correctly, this means that the essence of the question is whether or not DataMiner can manage Microsoft servers via another protocol, other than the WMI protocol typically used?