Accessing remote perfmon/PDH data from a service, how to

[Zoltan Luspai]

Hello,

I am developing a data collection module which needs to
access remote Perfmon data using PDH libraries, and should
also run as service. The problem is when I run this code
as service the access is denied to the remote if it runs
as LocalSystem. The question is if it is possible, or how
can I dynamically authenticate from the service code, so
that it can access the perfmon data (probably same problem
as accessing the remote registry) ?

Thanks,
Zoltan

 

[Dale Weiss]

Hello,

If the service is attempting to access a remote system with LocalSystem
credentials, then I would expect this to fail. The security context for the
service is the local system, which has rights locally but not to other
systems remotely.

Typically, when network resource access is required, a service account is
used.

The service account will need rights to access the target resource just as
a person would.

Dale Weiss MCSA MCSE CISSP
PSS Security

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