Documentation forSolarWinds Platform Self-Hosted

Required SolarWinds account permissions

This topic applies to all SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted) products.

The following table lists account permissions SolarWinds requires to specific folders on your server.

Access Level Account Folder the account needs to access
read NETWORK SERVICE

C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\

read IUSR

C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\

read Administrator

C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\

read NETWORK SERVICE

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\
Temporary ASP.NET Files

read IUSR

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files

write NETWORK SERVICE

C:\ProgramData\Application Data\SolarWinds

write NETWORK SERVICE

C:\InetPub\SolarWinds\web.config

write NETWORK SERVICE C:\Windows\TEMP
read NETWORK SERVICE C:\Windows\TEMP
write Authenticated Users

C:\ProgramData\Application Data\SolarWinds\Logs

read NETWORK SERVICE

C:\

 

The following table lists account permissions SolarWinds requires to specific certificates on your server.

Access Level Account Certificate the account needs to access
read NETWORK SERVICE

SolarWinds-Orion

read Administrator

SolarWinds-Orion

read SYSTEM

SolarWinds-Orion

read NETWORK SERVICE

SolarWinds Job Scheduler

read Administrator

SolarWinds Job Scheduler

read SYSTEM

SolarWinds Job Scheduler