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High Availability Toolkit User Privileges

The High Availability Toolkit interrogates the cluster setup and creates the required CA SOI cluster resources. To do this, you must have the appropriate user privileges to administer the cluster.

The following list is a summary of the required user privileges. The requirements can vary depending on the environment’s lockdown requirements.

Windows 2003 Cluster

• You must be a member of the Local Administrators group.
• You must have Domain Admin privileges.

Windows 2008 Cluster

• You must be a member of the Local Administrators group.
• You must have Domain Admin privileges or be a local Administrator user.

  If corporate policy prohibits granting you Domain Admin privileges, you can log in as the local Administrator user. As a local Administrator user, you may not be able to launch Failover Cluster Management because privileges may require you be a Domain user or Domain Admin user. The High Availability Toolkit should allow you to define the required resources as a Domain user or Domain Admin user.

• You may have to run in Elevated User mode, which you Run as Administrator from a command prompt.

In some cases, access can be denied when multiple remote connections exist. In a Windows 2008 cluster, some namespaces are configured with encryption (RequiresEncryption), which requires special permissions to view the content. To accommodate access, the High Availability Toolkit attempts to determine if permission is denied and if denied, prompts to be run in Elevated User mode by selecting Run as Administrator from a command prompt.