MAP toolkit: Credentials required
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In this phase, you will identify which credentials you will need for discovering computers in your environment as well as those required to gather the necessary information to support your goal. Most of the credentials required must have administrative rights to the computer being inventoried for the specific collector technology required.
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WMI |
Account Name and Passwords for Accounts with local computer administrative rights The WMI collector is used to gather hardware, device, and software information from remote Windows-based computers. This collector technology is used for the following inventory scenarios and must be enabled on the remote target computers.
*This scenario uses a modified WMI collection query that returns a subset of the data gathered by the WMI collector in the other scenarios. The Inventory and Assessment Wizard will not provide an option to enable WMI: You must enable it through Group Policy settings, logon scripts, or manually on each computer.
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SQL Server Authentication (Native and Windows) |
Account Name and Passwords for Accounts with administrative rights to the SQL Server databases The SQL Native and SQL Windows Collectors are the same except for the credentials used. They are used to collect additional in-depth SQL Server database information from remote Windows based computers. This collector technology is used for these inventory scenarios.
MAP can use either SQL Server Authentication or Windows Authentication to query the database engines. MAP refers to these methods as SQL Native and SQL Windows respectively. Although they are listed separately in the Inventory Wizard, you only need to provide administrator credentials for one. |
SSH |
Account Name and Passwords for Accounts with logon rights to the target computer. For Linux, the account must have rights to access HAL or dmidecode information. The SSH collector is used to collect hardware and software information from remote Linux and HP-UX based computers. It is also used to gather device performance data for Linux computers. This collector technology is used for these inventory scenarios and must be enabled on the target computers.
Note: MAP cannot connect to your Linux computers if you use SSH Keys. |
Oracle |
Account Name and Passwords for Accounts with Oracle database administrative rights The Oracle Collector is used to collect Oracle SQL Server schema information from remote Windows, Linux, and HP-UX based computers. This collector technology is used for this inventory scenario.
The 64-bit Oracle client must be installed on the computer that is running MAP in order to connect directly to the database engine and collect the schema information. If the 64-bit Oracle client is not installed MAP will still collect some basic information about the Oracle server from WMI or SSH. MAP will not collect schema information if the 32-bit Oracle client is installed. |
VMware |
Account Name and Passwords for Accounts with local computer administrative rights The VMware Collector is used to collect hardware, device, and software information from remote VMware computers. This collector technology is used for this inventory scenario.
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Powershell |
Account Name and Passwords for Accounts with local computer administrative rights. The PowerShell Collector is used to collect software information from remote Windows based computers. PowerShell 2.0 or higher must be installed and remote PowerShell must be enabled on the target computers. This collector technology is used for these inventory scenarios.
*Administrator rights are additionally required for either the Lync server or the ConfigMgr server with FEP components that you are attempting to collect from. |
Active Directory |
Account Name and Password for an Account that is domain-authenticated. For Exchange, the Account must have Exchange Admin or Domain Admin privileges. The Active Directory Collector is used to collect device and user information from Active Directory Domain Services. This collector technology is used for these inventory scenarios.
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