User accounts

Your cluster uses a number of accounts to run properly.

In a mixed cluster, you need one OS account for each platform of the OS accounts.

OS account

Description

Used to ...s

Installation OS account

The OS account used when installing on a host.

Not usually used again once installation is complete.

System services execution user OS account

The OS account that runs most of the Platform agents, daemons, and services on a host.

This is the account that runs all the elements of the infrastructure of the cluster, including:

  • LIM

  • PEM

  • EGOSC (EGO service controller)

  • WEBGUI

  • Web Service Gateway (WSG)

  • SD

  • RS (repository service)

  • DerbyDB (if applicable)

  • PLC

  • Purger

  • Service Director

Application workload execution user OS account

The OS account that runs work. Requires Platform Symphony or another workload component.

Depending on installation and configuration decisions, there could be multiple application workload execution user OS accounts.

Cluster administrator OS account

The OS account that has permission to change cluster configuration and control the cluster.

On Windows management hosts, system services execute with this OS account.

  • VEMKD

  • SSM

There are also Platform user accounts used in your cluster as well. See more information in the following table.


Platform account

Description

Used to ...

EGO authentication users

An EGO authentication user account is a Platform system user who can be assigned to any role: cluster administrator, consumer administrator, or consumer user.

Once you have created user accounts, you can assign roles to them in the Platform Management Console.

Restriction:

Only cluster administrators have access to User Accounts in the Platform Management Console.

The Platform user accounts used to log on to the Platform Management Console and the egosh command line interface (egosh user logon).


Allowable characters

A user account name can have the following characters: any alphanumeric character (a-z, 0-9), dashes (-), and underscores (_).They are case sensitive.

The length limitation of password is 16 and the allowed characters are:

!#$%&'()+,-./0123456789;=@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~

Not supported: "<>?|*: and characters from languages other than English.