Discovery probe permissions
Several probes require additional permissions to run.
Discovering Active Connections
Discovery uses the Windows - Active Connections probe to access active connection information. The application dependency mapping feature requires this probe to function.
| Probes | Additional Permissions |
|---|---|
| Windows - Active Connections | Ability to invoke the \\root\\CIMV2:Win32\_Process objectRead and Write access to the admin$ share |
Discovering Application Profiles
Discovery uses these probes to access application profile information.
| Probes | Additional Permissions |
|---|---|
| Windows - Get APD Environment FilesWindows - Get APD Env File Content Windows - Get APD Version File Content | Ability to invoke the \\root\\CIMV2:Win32\_Process objectRead and Write access to the admin$ share Write access to the %SystemRoot%\\temp directory |
Discovering VMware Workstation
Discovery uses the Windows - Get VMware Workstation probe to access information about VMware virtual machines installed on Windows.
| Probes | Additional Permissions |
|---|---|
| Windows - Get VMware Workstation | Ability to invoke the \root\CIMV2:Win32_Process objectRead and Write access to the admin$ share Write access to the %SystemRoot%\temp directory Configure the PATH variable to include the path to the |
Discovering MSSQL
Discovery uses the Windows - MSSQL probe to access information about Microsoft SQL Server installed on Windows.
| Probes | Additional Permissions |
|---|---|
| Windows - MSSQL | - Access to the Win32\_Process object - Access to the Win32\_Service object - Access to the Win32\_NetworkAdapterConfiguration object - Access to the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo object - Access to run the nbtstat command - Access to HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Microsoft SQL Server\\InstalledInstances - Access to HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\MSSQLServer\\$instanceName\\SuperSocketNetLib\\Tcp\\TcpPort where $instanceName is an array of possible values. |
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