Starting the Operations Center with non privileged account

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You can use the non-privileged account to start or stop theOperations Center service on Linux, Windows and AIX.

Background

  • Over privileged account user uses the IBM Installation Manager to install Operations Center.

  • The Operations Center is installed for a user having root access on Linux or administrator privileges on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

  • All package files are created under an area accessible to root/administrator. This mandates the administrators to have the elevated privileges for starting and stopping the Operations Center service, which should be avoided.

Improvised behaviour

  • The over privileged account user uses the IBM Installation Manager to install the Operations Center for a predefined user opscenter, having non-privileged access level.

  • The IBM Storage Protect administrators can use this non-privileged account to start or stop the Operations Center service.