Rights needed for computer management tasks

Hi all,

I've recently started at a company in an IT Security role.  We have a native 2008 R2 domain.  I am not a Domain Administrator, and have no desire to be.  Nor do I need to be a local administrator on the majority of servers.  However, I would like to be able to see certain information on all the servers in the domain, namely

- Local users and groups, and their memberships

- Event logs

- Local security policies

Is there a domain-wide group, delegation policy, or group policy that can be used to give me this access (presumably through Computer Management and other remote tools) without having to make changes to every server?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

- Steve