Administrative Permissions on the Remote Computer
To connect remotely and perform the WMI inventory, you will need to provide accounts that are members of the local Administrators group on the computer being inventoried. For most networks, the network administrator will have a domain or local account that is a member of the local Administrators group on all of the computers in the environment. These are the accounts you should enter on the WMI Credentials page to perform the WMI inventory.
Note: By default in Windows-based domain environments, the Domain Admins security group is added to the local Administrators group on a computer when it is joined to a domain.
The WMI inventory method is required for many assessment scenarios and must be enabled on all remote computers running Windows operating systems. The Inventory and Assessment Wizard will not provide an option to enable WMI. WMI is used to collect hardware, device, and software information from remote computers running Windows operating systems.
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