Sentinel Accounts And Password Changes; Native Database Authentication; Windows Authentication; Sentinel Default Users - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - REFERENCE GUIDE 02-2010 Reference Manual

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This section discusses users that are created or used during Sentinel installation and normal Sentinel
operations. Unless you create domain users in advance in order to use Windows Authentication,
these users are created by the Sentinel installer. These user accounts are used for Sentinel's normal
operations, such as event inserts into the Sentinel database.
The administrator might select to occasionally change the passwords for these accounts. To ensure
continued normal Sentinel operations, there are special procedures necessary to update the
passwords in all necessary locations.

6.1 Sentinel Default Users

This section discusses about Sentinel default users.

6.1.1 Native Database Authentication

Installer creates several users during installation if you use native database authentication (Oracle or
Microsoft SQL Server). These users are all created as database users in the Oracle or SQL Server
database, and the passwords are configurable at install time. The installer will create the users with
the following default names:
esecdba: Schema owner
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esecadm: Sentinel administrator
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 esecrpt: Reporter user, same password as the admin user
esecapp: Sentinel application user. Used by Sentinel Server to connect to the database
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In addition to creating a database user for the Sentinel administrator, the installer also creates a
Sentinel user with the same username and password for the Sentinel Control Center. For UNIX only,
the installer creates an operating system user with no password set. To log in as this user, the UNIX
administrator must set a password or su to the user as root.

6.1.2 Windows Authentication

If you use Windows authentication, the Windows administrator must create several domain accounts
before the installation is started. The credentials for these accounts must be given during the
Sentinel installation:
Sentinel DB Administrator: Schema owner
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 Sentinel Administrator: Sentinel administrator
Sentinel Report User: Reporter user, same password as the admin user.
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Sentinel Application User: Sentinel application username for connecting to the database.
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Windows Authentication users are supported only when SQL Server is being used and DAS is
running on Windows.

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