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iso installation user account requirements

Solved723 views7th July 2023installation
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Jeff Douglass860 1st March 2023 0 Comments

I have a few questions regarding user accounts and DM installation and upgrades. The are related to the window's account the user is logged in as when performing various actions, NOT the account the user is logged into CUBE with.

  1. When doing a fresh installation from iso is it required to be logged into the server as the local Administrator account or can any account with admin privileges be used?
    1. How to install without access to actual Administrator account
  2. For a Fail Over DMA pair does DM need to be initially installed (item # 1 above) by the same user on both DMA's or can the BU DMA be installed by a different user.
  3. What happens if DM agents were installed (item # 1 above) by local administrator account and then at a later point in time that account is disabled or removed. Are there any potential future issues due to DM requiring access to an account that is no longer present in the system to perform some sort of action?
  4. Are there any requirements on how the taskbar utility needs to run since it is the application that handles upgrades and other DM actions? Is it required that it always run as Administrator or is it fine to run with the same access levels as the currently logged in windows user.

I ask these questions because I have a dozen or so systems, some configured as Fail Over (FO), and our IT department has recently taken control over the local administrator accounts and disabled or removed them. I have also over the past week been experiencing issues testing FO configurating in DM 10.2 so I started wondering about the above questions and if these could be related to my FO config issues or if this is just an issue in 10.2.

Thanks in advance for any and all info.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 7th July 2023

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Rene De Posada [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]1.90K Posted 1st March 2023 0 Comments

Hi Jeff,

Please see some answers below.

  1. See answers here: (https://docs.dataminer.services/user-guide/Advanced_Functionality/DataMiner_Agents/Installing_a_DMA/Installing_DM_using_the_DM_Installer.html#custom-dataminer-installation)
  2. I don't see why a different user might create a problem (Configuring Failover | DataMiner Docs)
  3. As any other application, once DataMiner is installed by a user with admin rights, it should remain fully functional even if the original account is disabled
    1. Important though, if there are certain functions built on top of the core (e.g., user is used to access a network share from a connector) then if the account is disabled that functionality would be lost of course
Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 7th July 2023
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