"The RPC server is unavailable" error message displayed while adding or monitoring Windows server through WMI mode.
Here are a few methods to resolve an error :
- Try adding the server using domain name if the server is in a domain
- Try adding the server using name if the server is in a workgroup.
- If the server is in a DMZ, add the ipaddress and hostname in the <C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts> file in Applications Manager server.
- Ensure that the DNS record for this computer is up-to-date in the DNS Server.
- Check whether the RPC and WMI services are running in the remote machine.
- In the remote machine, go to Start --> Run --> services.msc
- Check whether the services Remote Procedure Call and Windows Management Instrumentation are running.
- If they are not running, start those services and add them to Applications Manager.
- Check the firewall settings and open the following ports required for WMI mode of monitoring.
- Remote Procedure Call (RPC) (default : 135)
- DCOM for remote communication:
- The server to be monitored uses a random port number above 1024 by default to respond back.
- Connect to the target server and configure it to use a port within a specified range of ports (5000 - 5100). You can follow the steps mentioned here for restricting the ports in the target server.
- Normally, opening at least a range of 100 ports is recommended. The same range of ports must also be opened in your firewall.
- Specific range of ports need to be opened based on the Windows' version to be monitored. Learn more
- Steps to enable Remote Administration in client machine's Firewall:
- Go to Start → Run → gpedit.msc to open Local Group Policy Editor.
- Click on Local Computer Policy and go to Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Network → Network Connections→ Windows Firewall →Domain Profile.
- Right-click remote administration exception rule, and then click Edit.
- Choose Enabled, and then click OK.
- From the AppManager host, use wbemtest to find the error code when connecting to the remote system.
- Click on Start --> Run --> wbemtest
- It opens up the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester tool. Click on the Connect button.
- In the first text box (\\root\default) , enter the following path <\\hostname\root\cimv2>. Then enter the username and password under the Credentials tab.
- If it works, then you would be able to access the machine only through the IP address. This may be due to some wrong entries in the <C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts> file. Remove the wrong entries in the file and try again with the hostname.
- If the error code is "0x800706BA" , Configure the firewall to allow remote administration. To do this, open a command prompt on remote windows machine and execute the following commands:
- netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Windows Remote Management" new enable=yes
- netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="windows management instrumentation (wmi)" new enable=yes
- netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="remote administration" new enable=yes
- If the result of the last command is "No rules match the specified criteria" then run the below command :
- netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable
Now re-execute the (iii) command again.
If it still does not work, send the screen shot of the error dialog which comes in wbemtest to appmanager-support@manageengine.com
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