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.

For WMI (These options are not available when selecting an SNMP counter.)

• 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 the setting: Account: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only and click Properties, then select Disable.

For SNMP (These options are not available when selecting a WMI counter.)

• SNMP v1/v2/v3 credentials. Select valid SNMP credentials for this computer.
• 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.