Pre-requisites for Monitoring Microsoft SharePoint

To pull the desired metrics from a SharePoint server/farm, the eG tests need to be configured with the credentials of a user with the following privileges:

• The user should be part of the SharePoint Farm Administrators group;
• The user should have shell admin access to all databases in SharePoint

• The user should be part of the following groups on the eG agent host:

  • Administrators
  • WSS_ADMIN_WPG
  • IIS_USRS
  • Performance Monitor Users
  • WSS_WPG
  • Users
• The user should have full control access to each web application that needs to be monitored on the SharePoint server;
• The user should have read and execute access to the eG agent install directory.