Sensors that support a non-admin discovery on Windows operating system

These sensors support discovery on the Windows operating system without providing user credentials with the administrator role.

The following sensors now support discovery on Windows without providing user credentials with the administrator role:
Application sensors
Table 1. Application sensors that support a non-admin discovery on Windows operating system.
Sensor Sensor name that is used in the UI and logs
DNS sensor DnsSensor
NFS sensor NFSServerSensor
SMB server sensor SMBServerSensor
Database sensors
Table 2. Database sensors that support a non-admin discovery on Windows operating system.
Sensor Sensor name that is used in the UI and logs
Microsoft SQL Server sensor SqlServerSensor
Generic sensors
Table 3. Generic sensors that support a non-admin discovery on Windows operating system.
Sensor Sensor name that is used in the UI and logs
Generic computer system sensor GenericComputerSystemSensor
Generic server sensor (with restrictions) GenericServerSensor
Ping sensor PingSensor
Port sensor PortSensor
Session sensor (with restrictions) SessionSensor
Operating system sensors
Table 4. Operating system sensors that support a non-admin discovery on Windows operating system.
Sensor Sensor name that is used in the UI and logs
Windows computer system sensor WindowsComputerSystemSensor
Restrictions:
  • Session sensor does not support automatic deployment of Agile Service Manager WMI provider files. See Copying the Wmi files.
  • Generic server sensor does not discover runtime process command-line arguments. Therefore, the Custom application server sensor does not start for the templates that are based on the Argument type conditions. Also, any application sensors that use such templates might not start.

A user with valid credentials and access rights still must be provided.

The rest of the application sensors still require the user to have an administrator role for successful discovery.
Note: Windows User Access Control (UAC) settings do not affect non-admin discovery because they cannot be disabled for standard users.

Configuring the sensors to run a non-admin discovery

To configure the sensors to run a non-admin discovery on the Windows operating system, see the Configuring for a non-admin Windows discovery topic.