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 Operational...