...
The Windows Management Instrumentation tends to time out on a regular basis, no matter which version is used or how big the machine is sized. Since WMI is responsible for collecting all performance data within Windows (which can also be viewed with perfmon on the specific machines), this may likely result in Checkmk services going stale, such as "Memory & Pagefile" and "Processor Queue".
- The easiest fix: reboot. If you reboot your systems regularly, i.e., once a month due to patching, this problem should occur quite rarely.
- Another approach is to increase the WMI timeout in the Checkmk yml-configuration file, which has been available since v1.6 (former: ini-file)
...
Please follow this guidance to increase the timeout.
- Go to the agent directory C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent
. Open the check_mk.user.yml file and search for the wmi_timeout section. Remove the '#' and select the value.
Code Block language bash theme RDark global: ... wmi_timeout: 7 # <- 7 sec, default ist 3 ...
...