Minimum Credentials Needed for Discovery of Windows Servers

Rick Mann
Tera Expert

We are in the process of using Discovery to build our CMDB. We have given our Midserver service account local admin rights on our servers to allow for Discovery. However, we cannot give this type of access on domain controllers. Has anyone run into a situation where they've had to grant Discovery the least amount of permissions possible on a server in order to complete Discovery? If so, what were the permission settings. Did you grant specific permissions on the WMI service? Thanks for any info.

Rick

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Yes. It works on Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012 R2.