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Complete the wizard, and verify agent deployment in the Jobs window.
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Run As accounts are used with Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Virtual Machine
Manager, and Service Manager. Run As accounts are stored sets of credentials that allow tasks
to be performed, such as the installation of agents. Through a Run As account, a low privi-
leged user can perform a specific task through an agent that would require elevated privi-
leges without needing to have those tasks directly granted to them. For example, rather than
add a user to the local Administrators group on a large number of servers, a Run As account
can be configured that is a member of this group. When the user needs to perform a task on
a remote computer with a specific System Center product that requires the permissions avail-
able to members of this group, they can use the Run As account to perform the task for them.
Operations Manager
Operations Manager uses Run As accounts and Run As profiles. A Run As account contains a
single set of credentials. A Run As profile can have multiple Run As accounts associated with
it. For example, you may need different sets of credentials to perform the same task on differ-
ent computers. You could configure separate Run As accounts associated with those creden-
tials, and then associate those Run As accounts with a specific profile.
Run As profiles are often defined in Operations Manager management packs. When con-
figuring the management pack to function in your organization's private cloud, you'll need to
create Run As accounts with credentials specific to your environment and associate them with
the Run As profile that came with the management pack. Each Run As account in Operations
Manager has a security classification, which can be set to More Secure or Less Secure. Setting
a Run As account as More Secure allows you to limit which computers the Run As account
credentials are distributed to.
To create a Run As account in Operations Manager for use with Windows based workloads,
perform the following steps:
1.
In the Administration workspace of the Operations Manager console, click Accounts
under the Run As configuration node.
On the Tasks menu, click Actions, and then click Create Run As Account.
2.
On the General Properties page of the Create Run As Account Wizard, specify the Run
As account type, and a display name. The Run As account can be one of the following
types:
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