Major problem with Forms Auth and WMI

I am getting following errors more and more often, when trying to sign-in to
Report Manager on the server hosting RS:
- "provider load failure"
- "Cound not read the Report Manager configuration file. Check to ensure
your Reporting Services WMI provider is working properly."
I don't have a clue where these error messages are coming from. IIS?
What is this WMI provider, and how can I verify if it is working properly'
Where should I start investigating the problem?
Until now, the only workaround is to reboot the server :(((
SQL Server 2000 SP3, RS SP1, Win 2000 Server SP 4
We're using Forms Auth as per the MSDN article.At a guess - Windows Management Instrumentation service is not running/has
stopped. Go to Administrative Tools,Services and find out.
Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
"James" wrote:
> I am getting following errors more and more often, when trying to sign-in to
> Report Manager on the server hosting RS:
> - "provider load failure"
> - "Cound not read the Report Manager configuration file. Check to ensure
> your Reporting Services WMI provider is working properly."
> I don't have a clue where these error messages are coming from. IIS?
> What is this WMI provider, and how can I verify if it is working properly'
> Where should I start investigating the problem?
> Until now, the only workaround is to reboot the server :(((
> SQL Server 2000 SP3, RS SP1, Win 2000 Server SP 4
> We're using Forms Auth as per the MSDN article.|||Thanks Charles,
I had restarted the server, so I cannot reproduce the "WMI provider" problem
right now. I'll make sure I check the WMI service and the WMI Driver
Extensions service next time I get the error.
Anybody can contribute on the "provider load failure" problem? This one
comes and goes. I try twice to log-on to RS Manager and get the error twice,
and the 3rd time I can log-on. Sometimes I can log-on straight away.
I'd like to know which is the application generating these messages, and
what I can do to find the source of the problem.
"Charles Kangai" wrote:
> At a guess - Windows Management Instrumentation service is not running/has
> stopped. Go to Administrative Tools,Services and find out.
> Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
> "James" wrote:
> > I am getting following errors more and more often, when trying to sign-in to
> > Report Manager on the server hosting RS:
> > - "provider load failure"
> > - "Cound not read the Report Manager configuration file. Check to ensure
> > your Reporting Services WMI provider is working properly."
> >
> > I don't have a clue where these error messages are coming from. IIS?
> > What is this WMI provider, and how can I verify if it is working properly'
> > Where should I start investigating the problem?
> >
> > Until now, the only workaround is to reboot the server :(((
> >
> > SQL Server 2000 SP3, RS SP1, Win 2000 Server SP 4
> > We're using Forms Auth as per the MSDN article.|||I've been experiencing the same problem on a reports server with the forms
extension set up. The problem seems to appear sporadically. Sometimes every
couple of weeks, sometimes every couple of hours, and the only solution has
been to restart the WMI service. Anyone got any pointers on how to avoid
this?
Cheers,
Si
"James" wrote:
> Thanks Charles,
> I had restarted the server, so I cannot reproduce the "WMI provider" problem
> right now. I'll make sure I check the WMI service and the WMI Driver
> Extensions service next time I get the error.
> Anybody can contribute on the "provider load failure" problem? This one
> comes and goes. I try twice to log-on to RS Manager and get the error twice,
> and the 3rd time I can log-on. Sometimes I can log-on straight away.
> I'd like to know which is the application generating these messages, and
> what I can do to find the source of the problem.
>
> "Charles Kangai" wrote:
> > At a guess - Windows Management Instrumentation service is not running/has
> > stopped. Go to Administrative Tools,Services and find out.
> >
> > Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
> >
> > "James" wrote:
> >
> > > I am getting following errors more and more often, when trying to sign-in to
> > > Report Manager on the server hosting RS:
> > > - "provider load failure"
> > > - "Cound not read the Report Manager configuration file. Check to ensure
> > > your Reporting Services WMI provider is working properly."
> > >
> > > I don't have a clue where these error messages are coming from. IIS?
> > > What is this WMI provider, and how can I verify if it is working properly'
> > > Where should I start investigating the problem?
> > >
> > > Until now, the only workaround is to reboot the server :(((
> > >
> > > SQL Server 2000 SP3, RS SP1, Win 2000 Server SP 4
> > > We're using Forms Auth as per the MSDN article.|||I've been effected by this bug as well, also after implementing the
Forms Authentication per the MSFT sample (and its Teo Lachev derivative
on devx.com). I can't say with any authority that the Forms Auth
causes it, because implementing the custom security extension is just
about the first thing I did after installing Reporting Services.
The bug happens infrequently but not rarely.
There are a couple entries that show up in the Application Event Log
when the "Provider Load Failure" message appears:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: WinMgmt
Event Category: None
Event ID: 20
Description:
Failed to CoGetClassObject for provider "ReportingServicesWMI". Error
code 0x800703E6 was returned.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Schedule and Delivery Processor
Event Category: Management
Event ID: 107
Description:
Schedule and Delivery Processor cannot connect to the report server
database.
Like others here, the only (temporary) fix I've found is restarting the
WMI service. When in this state, the services control panel shows WMI
as running but, when shutdown, creates this popup:
WinMgmt.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x77fcc823"
referenced memory at "0x041747f0". The memory could not be "read".
Once you click OK the service does shutdown, and on restart the whole
thing works again ... until it doesn't.|||can you explain this...The instruction at "0x77fcc823"referenced memeory at "0x000074b1". The memeory counld not be read...Pls i need answer via e-mail..thanks..
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