Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual page 35

User Description
esecapp Database application user.
This is the application user
used to connect to the
database.
esecadm Database user. This is the
Sentinel Administrator. This is
not the same user account as
the Sentinel Administrator
operating system user.
esecrpt Database report user
SYS SYS database user
SYSTEM SYSTEM database user
Windows
The SQL Server database must be installed and running.

 The Sentinel Database installer requires the SQL Server client tools to be installed on the
system where the Sentinel Database installer is run.
 The command to start the SQL Server Agent Service must be available on your database
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operating system. If not, the SQL Server Agent Service must be started manually for
partitioning and data archiving to work properly. Also, it must be scheduled to restart after a
reboot using another utility.
 Get the login credentials for the System Administrator database user
If the database uses SQL Authentication mode, the default database administrator user is

.
sa
 If the database uses Windows Authentication only mode, you must run the installer when
you are logged into Windows as a System Administrator database user.
 Set the
MSSQLSERVER
Determine the SQL Server Instance Name, if applicable.

NOTE: If you named your database instance during the SQL Server install, use the same name
when prompted for the SQL Server instance name when installing the Sentinel Database and
DAS components. If you did not name your database instance during the SQL Server install,
leave the instance name blank during installation (if you are typing the hostname, do not add
\<instance_name> to the database hostname).
Create directories for the following storage locations:

Data Directory

 Index Directory
Summary Data Directory

Summary Index Directory

Server Roles
securityadmin
Not required
Not required
Not required
Not required
service to log in using the Local System Account.
Need for the Role
esecapp needs the
securityadmin role, because
Sentinel applications run
under the esecapp user and
this role is required to
create new users in
Sentinel and the database.
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