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Scheduler as a Windows Service (Windows Client Scheduler)

The advantage of activating the Scheduler as a Windows service is that it works over a reboot and you do not need to connect to a host. The Scheduler is a separate service running in the background. A consideration for not running the scheduler as a Windows service would be if you do not have at least Power Users authority and do not plan to run the Scheduler on a server.

After installation, the Scheduler service is in a Status of Not Started and Startup Type of Manual. After starting the Scheduler service, the Status is set to Started and the Startup Type is set to Automatic. This means that whenever you restart your computer, the Scheduler is automatically started. By default, the Scheduler service runs under the system user account. It has full access to the local machine, but may have problems to access some remote locations and does not recognize your mapped drives. You may want to change the service account to use the credential that allows accessing network locations.

To change the service account to use the credential that allows accessing network locations

1. Open Control Panel.
2. Open Administrative Tools.
3. Double-click Services.

   The Services dialog is displayed.

4. Double-click the CA SRM and CA Vantage Scheduler service.

   The CA SRM and CA Vantage Scheduler Properties dialog is displayed.

5. Click the Log On tab.
6. Click the This account: option so it is selected.
7. Enter a user ID and password that has the appropriate level of access authority.

   Note: The user ID should follow the domain name and backslash (for example, DDDDD\UUUUU, where DDDDD is the domain name and UUUUU is the user ID).

8. Click OK.