Running Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server by a non-admin user

You can use local security policies to run the Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server as a non-administrator user.

1. Go to TEMA and change the Microsoft SharePoint Server agent startup with non-administrator user.
2. Add a non-administrator user under the Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server directory and give read access to it.
3. Add non-administrator user under Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions and give read access to it.
4. Add non-administrator user manually under Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\16.0\Secure\ and give read access to it.
5. Add non-administrator user under Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBMMonitoring directory and give full permissions to it.
6. Add non-administrator user under Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib directory and give read access to it.
7. Add non-administrator user in SharePoint Agent installation folder. For example, C:\IBM\APM and give full permissions to it.
8. Run the secpol.msc command in startmenu to open the Local Security Policy.
9. Add non-administrator user in Local Security Policy. For more information, see Local Security Policy permissions.
10. Add non-administrator user in the SQL Server Login user group. The user must have sysadmin SQL Server role permissions on the SQL Server.
11. Restart the Microsoft SharePoint Server agent.
12. Check Microsoft SharePoint Server agent status and verify the data on IBM Cloud Application Management portal.
13. The following attribute groups show data for users who are members of the Administrators group:
    1. Availability