Event ID 10132 — Listener Availability

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

The Listener is a component of the WinRM service that indicates to the service which IP addresses and ports to listen on for WS-Management related requests. Users can create one or more listeners.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 10132
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WinRM
Version: 6.1
Symbolic Name: LOG_WSMAN_SERVICE_POLICY_CHANGE_NOTIFICATION_FAILURE
Message: The WinRM service is not listening for policy changes because there was a failure registering for changes to the contents of the WS-Management policy key.

No group policy change will be serviced.

User Action
Stop and restart the WinRM service.

Additional Data
The error code was %1.

Resolve

Restart the WinRM service

To restart the WinRM service by using the Services MMC snap-in:

  1. Click the Start button.
  2. Click Control Panel.
  3. Click System and Maintenance.
  4. Click Administrative Tools.
  5. Click Services to start the Services Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.
  6. Search for Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) in the list of service names displayed by the Services MMC snap-in.
  7. Right-click the Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) service name and select Restart to restart the service.

Note: If the WinRM service is not started, the Restart option will not appear in the context menu displayed in Step 7. In this case, select Start.

To restart the WinRM service by using a command-line tool:

  1. Type net stop winrm.
  2. Type net start winrm.

Verify

Use the winrm command line tool to create a request to the WinRM service to verify that the service is listening on the network.

To make a request, type winrm get winrm/config -r:<computer>, where computer is the name of the remote computer where the winrm service is running.

Listener Availability

Management Infrastructure