Venkata,

Thanks for reading this article.

Yes, you have to install an agent on the server. As far as I know it's very low overhead. Also there is a client componenet so you can review the data from Client machine.

I believe data is stored into historical flat files on the machine where it was installed and then perodically, it also goes into Performnace Warehosue database which also gets created when you install Indepth.

It does need an account with Sysadmin access while setting it up. However I am not sure if from a client machine you can access this data with less privileges. I never had to try that.

Thanks.

-Hiren