# Monitoring OS resources on remote server

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/monitoring-os-resources-on-remote-server/62879>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [August 10, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/monitoring-os-resources-on-remote-server/62879 "2022-08-10T16:15:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/monitoring-os-resources-on-remote-server/62879/4 "2022-08-10T20:00:58Z")

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This looks like it could work (I have not tested):

> **[Python - Monitor Windows Remotely With WMI](http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2008/12/python-monitor-windows-remotely-with.html)**
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> Corey Goldberg's Blog - Technology, Programming

> **[WMI](https://pypi.org/project/WMI/)**
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> Windows Management Instrumentation

I'm guessing you'll need Ignition running under a user that is a member of Performance Monitor Users on the remote machines:

> [@\[Bug-5368\] Ignition Gateway Service User](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-5368-ignition-gateway-service-user/57914/8):
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> Try adding the user that is running the Ignition Gateway to the Performance Log Users group. You will have to restart the gateway for it to take effect. It looks like this may be required to actually query the performance counters system to retrieve process cpu load.

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