About the Network User Account

The Network User Account is a user name and password combination that enables inter-node communication between computers in a System Platform environment. You must specify the same user account on every node when you install the System Platform components for the first time on computers that communicate with each other.

Caution: The Network User Account is a Windows operating system account located on the local computer or on a domain. Do not delete this account with operating system account management tools. If you do, System Platform software that uses the account may stop functioning properly.

• If the Network User Account has not previously been configured, you will be prompted to configure it during the System Platform installation. You must specify a user name, password, and domain.

• If you use an existing user account, it should have a permanent password that does not expire, and the password should not be changed.

• If your IT guidelines require that the password is changed periodically, note that this release allows you to paste a plain text password into the password field to simplify the task on multi-node systems.

After you install a System Platform component, you can use the Change Network Account utility to change or re-create the Network User Account. The AVEVA Start menu contains a shortcut to the utility.

You must have Administrator privileges to use the Change Network Account utility. For more information, see the Change Network Account utility help, available from within the utility.

Note: If you re-create 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 node. Until that occurs, some System Platform components may not function properly. Restarting the Galaxy node updates this information immediately.