Hi all, What are the minimum Windows service account privileges required for SolarWinds Windows polling? Assigning Domain Administrator to the service account is considered overprivileged, and the password must be manually changed every 180 days.
The account does not have to be domain admin, but normally it has to be local admin on the server to be monitored with WMI
WMI requirements for SolarWinds accounts
You can also use gMSA to not be needing to change the passwords every now and then. Or use an agent.
Unfortunatly you are going to need admin rights on the box. I haven't seen anything official from SW stating otherwise.
If you don't want to give it domain admin rights, you could in theory use the SolarWinds agent for Domain Controllers, then use a normal account or a GMSA account (either would require admin rights) for all other boxes. The GMSA would be domain controlled so you would not need to manually reset passwords. I haven't had a chance to test it out yet, but it sounds promising.
Try to create user with DCOM permission. Please follow the bellow steps.
Steps to verify WMI access for Non-Admin Domain user
