An operating system account you use to run Configuration
Manager.
Procedure
- Create the following operating system account:
- Configuration Manager user
- 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®, HPUX, HPUXi, Linux, Linux for System z,
Solaris).
- 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.