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Hi Folks, I wonder what are the minimum privilege or least amount of privilege for Solarwinds SAM monitoring service account? I need some help to downgrade my service account that is now running as domain admin. Thank you,
My security team wants us to use a new user account for solar winds. I'm not certain where all it's used. But I can see that if I go into Database Manager I can see if there - svc-orionsql. How can I change that to use another service account? And how can I find every place within Solar Winds that might be making use of…
I'm trying to get an Alert to kick off various tasks against the offender machines. Right now I have a powershell script that does exactly what I need. But whenever Solarwinds executes it, it fails due to permissions and the Transcript shows it as the Contoso/SYSTEM user running the script. After some digging, I found…
In setting up SAM, I've created a regular user account with administrative rights for WMI access. This isn't the best practice from a security perspective, so I've been doing some reading about setting up a Windows service account. It seems very complicated and labor intensive. Has anyone implemented WMI in a large…
Running NPM 9.1 SP5, SQL 2005 Enterprise on same box. We've narrowed down that NPM is locking out my AD account every few hours (sporadic, sometimes it's in minutes). I've checked all services, IIS, event logs, and deleted my accounts in NPM. My userID is not associated anywhere that I can find. We use a service account…
We are setting up a service account for our network, what basic rights does the account need to function properly? I can't seem to find it anywhere in the IPAM Administrators Guide. Thanks in advance, Dave
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