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\ |
| 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:\ |
| 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 |