Remote host WMI collection capabilty in the win_wmi plugin

[shockogit]

Use Case

The ability for the WMI plugin

telegraf/plugins/inputs/win_wmi/win_wmi.go

Line 1 in 9a9bb16

//go:build windows

to collect data from a remote host.

Expected behavior

The ability to specify a remote host(s) to gather WMI data from

Actual behavior

Only local host is supported so agent must run on host. No agentless capability.

Additional info

WMI is generally a datastore accessed remotely by numerous native windows tools. Seems logical to add this feature.

[powersj]

Hi,

I had some déjà vu thinking we already did this, but #12556 was about win_perf_counters.

Let me talk to folks about this tomorrow. It seems this has come up before.

[powersj]

Sven is going to look into doing this. This should be similar to what we have for win_perf_counters in terms of auth, and does mean that this would only be available from a windows machine to a windows machine.

[shockogit]

It would be super useful. For windows, I find myself more and more gathering the win_perf_counters input remotely. I have several use cases for wmi, in particular the Citrix EUEM metrics.

[srebhan]

@shockogit please test the binary in #14973 and let me know if it works for your use-case!

[shockogit]

@shockogit please test the binary in #14973 and let me know if it works for your use-case!

Works perfectly!