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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

You're reading from   Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Using SCOM 2016 TP 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289743
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Greene Kevin Greene
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Preface 1. Introduction to System Center Operations Manager FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing System Center Operations Manager 3. Exploring the Consoles 4. Deploying Agents 5. Working with Management Packs 6. Managing Network Devices 7. Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications 8. Alert Tuning the Easy Way 9. Visualizing Your IT with Dashboards 10. Creating Alert Subscriptions and Reports 11. Backing Up, Maintenance and Troubleshooting Index

Creating the service accounts

When you've decided on the design that best suits your needs, you can begin preparing the environment for the installation of OpsMgr. The first thing to do is to understand the service accounts that will be used and then go ahead and create them in the Active Directory environment.

The following table details the four accounts requested during installation and also gives a suggested name for each.

Account

Suggested Name

Description

Management server action account

opsmgr_action

  • Used for collecting data from providers and running responses on monitored computers across the network.
  • This account should be configured as a standard domain user account in Active Directory.
  • Should not be granted domain administrative privileges.

System Center Configuration service and System Center Data Access service account

opsmgr_sdk

  • Used to update and read information in the Operational database
  • Can be configured as either Local System or as a domain account.
  • If the...
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