Modify the network account

After you install the System Platform, you can use the Change Network Account utility to change or recreate the Network Account. The Change Network Account Utility is a tool to manage credentials for node-to-node communications between System Platform computers. See Network account for more information. A shortcut to the Change Network Account utility is created in the AVEVA folder after you install the System Platform products.

After opening the utility, select the domain name from the drop down menu if necessary. If the domain name does not appear on the drop down menu, enter the short domain name. Do not use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). For example, use "DomainName" and not "DomainName.com" or "DomainName.local."

To run the utility from the command line, open the command window as Administrator. See Change the network account from the CLI for more information. You must have administrator privileges to run the utility through the GUI or from the command line.

Important: When you change or recreate the Network Account, a system restart is required. Close all applications and select OK to proceed.

Note: If you recreate the user account using the Change Network Account utility, the Microsoft Windows security component on the computer can take several minutes to update this information on the Galaxy Repository node. Until that occurs, inter-node communications may not function properly. Restarting the Galaxy Repository node updates this information immediately.