Specifications

Appendix A: Troubleshooting Hyper-V discovery
To allow WMI traffic through the Windows Firewall on Windows 2008 R2:
1. Log on to the computer you want to monitor with an administrator account.
2. Navigate to Start> Administrative Tools> Windows Firewall with
Advanced Security.
3. Click Inbound Rules in the left navigation pane.
4. Click Windows Management Instrumentation (DCOM-In), and then click
Enable Rule in the Action menu.
To allow WMI traffic through the Windows Firewall on Windows 2008:
1. Log on to the computer you want to monitor with an administrator account.
2. Navigate to Start> Control Panel> Windows Firewall. Switch to the
Classic View of the Control Panel to use this navigation path.
3. Click Allow a program through Windows Firewall in the left navigation
pane.
4. Select Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
5. Click OK.
Creating a new firewall rule to open the RPC ports
Open the RPC ports to successfully collect information from Hyper-V hosts. This
is best done by creating a new firewall rule.
To open the RPC ports on Windows 2008 R2:
1. Log on to the computer you want to monitor with an administrator account.
2. Navigate to Start> Administrative Tools> Windows Firewall with
Advanced Security.
3. Click Inbound Rules in the left navigation pane.
4. Click Actions > New Rule.
5. In Rule Type, select Custom, and then click Next.
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