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About Global Users

All users that are defined to CA EEM are global users. The global users can be one of the following types:

• Users for whom you create global user accounts, where you supply all details, including assigning an application group and specifying a password.
• Users that are defined in CA EEM for use with another CA product. You search for such global users and provide CA Process Automation access by assigning a CA Process Automation application group to each user. Such global users log in to CA Process Automation with the credentials previously defined in CA EEM.
• Users that are defined in an external user store that you identify when you install CA EEM. You search for such global users and provide CA Process Automation access by assigning a CA Process Automation application group to each user. Such global users log in to CA Process Automation with the credentials defined in the external user store.

  Note: Users enter credentials as either their principal name (domain name\user name) and password or their user name and password. The principal name is accepted when CA EEM uses Microsoft Active Directory as the external user store and multiple domains are referenced during the installation. The principal name is required when the source AD domain for the user is not the default domain.

If you use the CA EEM internal user store, you create global users and you assign application groups. If you reference an external user store, you retrieve global users and you assign application groups.