HP SIM and managing secured DC's

[SlyBroman]

Is it possible to manage domain controllers in HP SIM if the AD team admins will not give you  Administrator access to these servers?

[Sander-A]

Once the management agents (either wbem or snmp) are installed (which does require admin rights) you can monitor the server without needing admin rights.

It's a little more complicated, but it can be done.

[SlyBroman]

Thank you Sander-A. Which protocol would you reccomend using SNMP or WBEM once I get access to the domain controllers?

[Sander-A]

WBEM is supposed to be more secure, but I use SNMP since its simpler and easier to troubleshoot from a networking perspective.

With SNMP you only need 2 ports open whereas WBEM requires a lot more and generally you want another Windows account to access it.

I would use SNMP in your case.