You could run WhatsUp Gold application as a service on your monitoring server, and have that service run as a local service account with admin rights. however, for each remote NT server that it is monitoring, it must have local or domain admin rights to check the status of the services.
We setup our monitoring server in a physically secured data center, then limit console access to the Whatsup Gold maps for the system admins either by using Terminal Services or VNC. For all others we use the web access to display the status of the maps and allow them to acknowledge alerts. -----Original Message----- From: James Amann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Burks, Jon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Installing and Running WUG Thanks for the note. We do use the web interface for others to view status, but my scenario is that I need our ops center to have access to the console and ability to reboot server if there is a problem. I did not want to give them an admin account but.... Thanks again, James Amann >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/03 03:24PM >>> James, WhatsUp Gold must run under a local admin or domain admin account in order to check for the status of NT services. There is no option for a "connect as" to monitor other servers in a domain. This is not a good thing, unless you can physically secure your server and WUG console. Thus, this is why most people use the integrated web interface for displaying the maps. Recommendations need to be made to IPSwitch development to allow this product to connect to a remote device using a specified service account with sufficient admin rights. Regards, Jon -----Original Message----- From: James Amann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Installing and Running WUG All, I installed WUG on a WIN2k Srv under the admin account. I would like to run the application under a user account. When I tried this I saw some very odd behavior. Syslog svc failed, the voice message feature threw up errors, I could not load my default context and I was unable to create another. What is the word? Does WUG just have to run under the admin account or is there a way to do it as a user account? thanks in advance, James McGovern Amann Network Technician Lead Georgia State University IST / UCCS 95 Decatur St. Suite 500 Atlanta, GA 30303 PH: 404.651.1574 FX: 404.651.4408 PG: 404.476.7754 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
