Granting Read-Only and administrative access to Central Management Server (CMS)

In one of my previous post, I had discussed about the Central Management Server and how to Register it.
In this post, I will be telling how to give read-only access and a Administrative access to an existing CMS.

Grating the Read-Only and Administrative access to CMS is very simply and the activity includes adding the right database users to right groups in msdb database.

Granting Read-Only access:

USE [msdb]
GO
CREATE USER [DBUserName] FOR LOGIN [LoginName]
GO
EXEC sp_addrolemember N'ServerGroupReaderRole', N'DBUserName'
GO

Granting Administrator access:
This access is usually give to the DBA's

USE [msdb]
GO
CREATE USER [DBAUserName] FOR LOGIN [DBALoginName]
GO
EXEC sp_addrolemember N'ServerGroupAdministratorRole', N'DBAUserName'
GO

Give access to a non sysadmin user to run Profiler

Sometimes as a DBA, you come across a situation where you need to give access to a non sysadmin user to run profiler on a particular SQL server.
If you try to run the profiler using the user who does not have sysadmin access then you will get the below error.

Here is the solution how to grant access to a non sysadmin user to run profiler.
Using Query: 

-- To Grant access to a Windows Login
USE master;
GRANT ALTER TRACE TO [Domain\WindowsLogin]

-- To Grant access to a SQL Login
USE master;
GRANT ALTER TRACE TO [SQL User]

Using SSMS:

1. Expand the Server in object Explorer
2. Expand "Security" folder and then "logins"
3. Right-Click on the login to which you need to give access and then go to "Properties" of that login
4. Go to "Securables" Tab
5. Select the server you want to add the permission
6. In the "Permission for <Server Name>" block, click on "Grant" check box for "Alter Trace" and click "OK"
7. Once this is completed, the permission should appear in the "Effective" Tab

Note: The Granter should be a sysadmin user.