Required Accounts During setup, you are prompted for two accounts, the management server action account and the System Center Configuration service and System Center Data Access service account. In Operations Manager, you can use the same account for both services. If you install Reporting, you are prompted for two additional accounts, the Data Warehouse Write account and the Data Reader account. These accounts are created as domain user accounts and added to the local Administrators group on the target server. Note If you create a specific account for installation, this account must be a member of the sysadmin server role for Microsoft SQL Server, but also have access to the master database. Note If you install multiple management servers, you are prompted for a management server action account and a System Center Configuration service and System Center Data Access service account each time you add a management server. You must provide the same accounts for each installation. Account Description Permissions Management server action This account is used to carry To save time, specify a account out actions on monitored account. We computers across a network recommend that you create an connection. account for this purpose that has local administrative credentials. You should not use an account that has domain administrative credentials. System Center Configuration This account is one set of This account can be configured service and System Center credentials that is used to as either Local System or as a Data Access service account update and read information in domain account. The account the operational database. must have local administrative Operations Manager ensures credentials. For cases where that the credentials used for the operational database is the System Center Data hosted on a remote computer Access service and System that is not a management Center Configuration service server, a domain account must account are assigned to the be used. For better security, sdk_user role in the we recommend that you use operational database. an account different from the
Required Accounts During setup, you are prompted for two accounts, the management server action account and the System Center Configuration service and System Center Data Access service account. In Operations Manager, you can use the same account for both services. If you install Reporting, you are prompted for two additional accounts, the Data Warehouse Write account and the Data Reader account. These accounts are created as domain user accounts and added to the local Administrators group on the target server. Note If you create a specific account for installation, this account must be a member of the sysadmin server role for Microsoft SQL Server, but also have access to the master database. Note If you install multiple management servers, you are prompted for a management server action account and a System Center Configuration service and System Center Data Access service account each time you add a management server. You must provide the same accounts for each installation. Account Description Permissions Management server action account This account is used to carry out actions on monitored computers across a network connection. To save time, specify a account. We recommend that you create an account for this purpose that has local administrative credentials. You should not use an account that has domain administrative credentials. System Center Configuration service and System Center Data Access service account This account is one set of credentials that is used to update and read information in the operational database. Operations Manager ensures that the credentials used for the System Center Data Access service and System Center Configuration service account are assigned to the sdk_user role in the operational database. This account can be configured as either Local System or as a domain account. The account must have local administrative credentials. For cases where the operational database is hosted on a remote computer that is not a management server, a domain account must be used. For better security, we recommend that you use an account different from the