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Specify a PE Domain User

Your policy engines must be able to access the policy engine hub. Specifically, the policy engine service (wgnpesv.exe) must run as a domain user who can access the host machine running the policy engine hub. Likewise, the policy engine hub uses this same domain user to access the remote policy engine machines.

Therefore, you must either create a new domain user in Active Directory, or choose an existing domain user. This is your ‘PE domain user’. Throughout This section, the term ‘PE domain user’ refers to the domain user you are using to pilot your policy engines and the policy engine hub.

The PE domain user must also be a member of the local Administrators group on all policy engines. This requirement is restated where appropriate in the following sections.

Note: When you deploy your policy engines, you will also need to modify the logon properties of this PE domain user on the policy engine host machine.