Requirements for asset tagging

System requirements

Hosted users
- A hosted N-able Login or N-able Login with Entra ID.
On-Premises Users
- Opt into Analytics to enable Cloud Eventing, which also activates our Modern agent on devices.
- N-central 2025.2.0.1 or later installed (see 2025.2 Release Notes).
- A valid N-able Login or N-able Login with Entra ID.

User permissions

Tag Management requires the Custom Properties permissions and the Device View (All Devices) permission, which you enable when creating a role. These permissions are included in the following roles by default:

Default Administrators can:

Create and manage tag definitions on the Tag Management page
Assign and remove tags in the Assets view

Default Technicians can:

Assign and remove tags in the Assets view

For more information, see Permissions dictionary & menus.

Exclusions

You may need to add exclusions to your security solutions (such as firewalls etc.) for the Modern Agent executable and its supporting files (for Ecoverse features) which are downloaded and installed to feature specific directories within the following locations:

Windows

C:\Program Files (x86)\Msp Agent\

Linux

/opt/msp-agent/

macOS

/Library/MspAgent/