Hi Christian,

If you run the Windows command

   vssadmin list writers

Do you see the system writer and WMI writer included in the output?

Best regards,

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 2012-08-06
04:27:22:

> From: Christian Svensson <Christian.Svensson AT CRISTIE DOT SE>
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu,
> Date: 2012-08-06 04:35
> Subject: ANS1705E with WMI Writer
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>
> Hi their,
> I hope to find some light over here.
>
> I got a couple of servers that has the same problem. All of them are
> Windows Server 2003 32-bits with SP2 and running TSM Client  6.2.3.1.
>
> When I try to backup System State do I get following error ANS1705E
> System Writers 'system writer' 'WMI Writer' do not exist, following
> by many ANS1417W that are created by the first error.
>
> When I searching on the web do I found a couple of ideas to
> recreate/modify a couple of registry values/catalogs, but before I
> start with try-n-error method do I find out what's really going on
> and when I run the WMIDiag tool from Microsoft do I got following error.
>
> 35718 10:04:07 (0) ** - Root/CIMv2, InstancesOf,
> 'Win32_ComputerSystem' did not return any instance while AT LEAST 1
> instance is expected.
> 35719 10:04:07 (0) **   MOF Registration: ''
>
> When I search on that error do I get 0 results that are similar.
>
> So if you have any ideas how to solve this problem should I be glad
> to get that information.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>