andersson_par (5/3/2013)

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SCOM it is!

To make this work use a service account to run the scom agent service with this:

Member of "Performance Monitor Users" local group

Member of "Event Log Readers" local group if OS is Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2

Member of "Distributed COM Users" local group if SQL Server is running in a clustered configuration

Full access to Cluster if SQL Server is running in a clustered configuration

Permission to Log On Locally

SQL permission to VIEW ANY DEFINITION

SQL permission to VIEW SERVER STATE

SQL permission to login in each database including system databases

Member of "SQLAgentReaderRole" in msdb database