Component by component permissions

The table below lists the permissions needed to create or add to an installation one component at a time.

To do this	Required permissions and roles (scope)
Create an audit installation
Create an audit console
Create a SQL Server instance
Check a SQL Server service account
Add a service connection point
Add a publication location	Audit server administrator or Manage Publication Locations (Installation)
Add a UNIX agent to an audited machine
Add a Windows agent to an audited machine
Enable trusted audited machine list for an audit store	Audit server administrator or Manage Collectors (Installation)
Add an audited machine to the trusted list for an audit store	Audit server administrator or Manage Collectors (Installation)
Add a collector	[does not require any special permissions to install]
Enable trusted collector list for an audit store	Audit server administrator or Manage Collectors (Installation)
Add a collector to the trusted list for an audit store	Audit server administrator or Manage Collectors (Installation)
Add an audit store	Audit server administrator or Manage Audit Store List (Installation)
Add an audit store database	SQL: Database owner (dbo) or a delegated member of the db_owner role or Audit store administrator (Installation) or Audit server administrator (Installation) or Manage Databases (Installation)
Attach an audit store database Change which DB is active Attach DA version 1 database	Audit Store administrator (Installation) or Audit server administrator (Installation) or Manage Databases (Installation)
Change which DB is active	Audit Store administrator or Audit server administrator or Manage Databases
Add a subnet or AD site to the audit store	Audit Store administrator or Audit server administrator or Manage Sites (Audit store)
Add an audit server	Manage Audit Server List (Installation)
Add an audit role; change its definition, menbership or permissions	Creator of installation (Installation) or Audit server administrator (Installation) or Manage Audit Roles (Installation)