Creating Configuration Manager user
An operating system account you use to run Configuration Manager.
Procedure
- Create the following operating system account:
- Configuration Manager user
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- Unique identifier
- config_mgr_user
- Description
- An operating system account you will use to run Configuration Manager.
- Minimum required permissions
- config_mgr_user must belong to the cpe_appserver_install_group.
- (Windows only) Using Active
Directory tools, add config_mgr_user to either the Power® Users group or the Local Administrators group.At several points in the installation process you will be instructed to grant additional permissions to config_mgr_user, including the following permissions:
- Execute permission to the Configuration Manager executable file, configmgr.exe (Windows) or configmgr.sh (AIX®, Linux®, Linux for System z®).
- Read and write permission to the directory where Configuration Manager will create the
configuration XML files. For example:
- the directory you specify using the optional -path parameter when you run Configuration Manager.
- the default directory, ce_install_path/tools/configure/profiles, if you do not specify a path parameter.
Record this value in your customized Installation and Upgrade Worksheet. To find this property, search the worksheet for instances of config_mgr_user.