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That icon usually means the map was saved without a status. The account that created or last saved the map needs the “Allow Node Management Rights” permission, not just Intelligent Map management rights. Check the original creator’s permissions, then save the map again with Node Management Rights enabled, or recreate it if…

You’re right to question CONTROL SERVER, since it’s still a fairly high level of access. For SQL Sentry, the documented non-sysadmin baseline is CONTROL SERVER on the monitored instance plus membership in msdb’s SQLAgentOperatorRole; SQL Sentry also lists some feature limitations when sysadmin isn’t used. I’d avoid trying…