This monitor ensures that Windows Remote Management (WinRM) running on the system is configured to allow Basic Authentication for communication. Basic Authentication is required for all Agent communication. If the state is unknown, either monitoring has not begun for this object or there are no monitors defined that monitor availability.

An unhealthy state for this monitor indicates that the WinRM client is configured to not allow for Basic Authentication. View all current alerts from this object using this link:

Alerts

To configure the WinRM Client to allow for Basic Authentication, issue the following command from a command prompt on any Operations Manager Servers that will be communicating with the Unix/Linux Agents:

winrm set winrm/config/client/auth @{Basic="true"}