Activity Monitor paused

Question

Some of our end-users still like to use the Activity Monitor in SQL Server. When setting up our SQL-server 2016 servers the activity monitor always ends up in a paused state when the users are not part of the "Administrators" group in Windows (on the server).

When the users are part of the Administrator-group all data gets through (so probably not a Firewall-problem). We also tried:

• Adding the users to the "Performance Monitor Users" and "Distributed COM Users"
• In COM: Changing the limits of "My Computer" and the permissions on "Windows Management and Instrumentation".
• The users also have the "View server state" permission in SQL Server.

Do you have any other suggestions?

Kind Regards,

Tim

Answer 1

Found the sollution for this after @TiborKaraszi 's tip about WMI.

• Run wmimgmnt.msc on the DB-server
• Open the properties of WMI-Control (RM-click)
• Open the security tab.
• Select CIMv2 en click the Security button below
• Add or locate the account or group
• In the permissions list, check Remote enable.