Some computers have broken WMI libraries

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(imported topic written by acwilson91)

Hello,

I was turning on some analysis options and noticed the following warning on a couple:

Note: Some computers have broken WMI libraries and when the BES Client accesses these libraries, inconsistent results may occur or there may be undesired behavior on the BES Client computers. If you have known problems with WMI on your computers, do not activate this analysis.

I want to be careful to avoid causing problems on some computers, so I hesitated to enable them. My question is, if we know that broken WMI computers can experience performance issues w/BES, can we easily identify those computers with another analysis such that we can easily see which computers have broken WMI settings w/o causing a performance issue?

Just wondering, thanks.

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

acwilson, I usually activate the analysis and fix the WMI on computers that report for the properties. Looking at a property such as COMPUTER MODEL, which reads from WMI will help you identify which PCs have a currput WMI. I havent seen any unusual behavior on PCs that have currupt WMI so far, just a few microsoft error messages. To correct the WMI on XP run : rundll32 wbemupgd, UpgradeRepository