User profiles

Before starting the Launcher, you must create at least one user profile for Launcher authentication.

To add a user profile

  1. From the Access tab, click Add.

    The User Properties window opens.

  2. Complete each field:
    • User Name - the user's name (up to 32 alphanumeric characters).
    • Login Name - the user's login ID for the network (up to 9 alphanumeric characters).
    • Password - the password for the Login Name (up to 12 alphanumeric characters).

      By default, each action category (Start/Stop; Pause/Resume; Monitor) is set to Revoke, which means that this user does not have any access rights.

      Note: The access rights that you grant to a user apply to all systems running in the Launcher.
  3. Under each action category (Start/Stop; Pause/Resume; Monitor), click Revoke to view a drop-down menu that contains the two options: Grant or Revoke.
  4. After you select the security level for each category, click OK to save changes.

    The new user appears in the profiles list on the Access tab.

    Note: You must set up users with the appropriate access rights in the Launcher Administration interface to view systems running in the Management Console.

About Access Permission

By default, the Launcher process has Local System account privileges on Windows platforms because it is run as a service. However, Local System account privileges are insufficient for performing tasks associated with mapped network drives.

If you have an issue with access permission on mapped network drives, the solution is to configure the Launcher service to log on using a specific account.

To configure user account information

  1. Open the Windows Computer Management console.
  2. Locate Services and double-click WebSphere® Transformation Extender Launcher.

    The Properties window is displayed, from which you can make account changes.