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Prerequisites and Pre-registration Notes

Use the following list to check for registration prerequisites:

• The CA SRM Computer Registration Wizard requires local administrative rights on the Application Server and on each computer that you want to manage.
• The CA SRM Computer Registration Wizard needs a basic level of security to collect operating system information from a target computer; therefore, you must ensure that you are logged onto the CA SRM Windows client computer as a domain user with Administrator privileges.
• To activate the CA SRM Computer Registration Wizard, you must have Administrator privileges to the computer you want to register. Use the following notes if you want to use the Microsoft model of resource and user domains:
  • If the Managed Computer domain trusts the Application Server domain, use the security of the Application Server domain.
  • If the Application Server domain trusts the Managed Computer domain, use security from the Managed Computer domain.
  • If both the Application Server domain and the Managed Computer domain trust domain X, use security from domain X.

  Note: If you cannot give Administrator privileges to the computer you want to register, for example, the computer belongs to a non-trusted domain, you must manually install the CA SRM Agent on the computer you want to register and then add it to the CA SRM database using the CA SRM Computer Registration Wizard. To install the CA SRM Agent, you can use the CA SRM installation CD. To manually install the CA SRM Agent, you can also select setup.exe from the following directory on the Application Server:

  BrightStor SRM Data\Database\Configuration\InstallAgent\NT 
  

• If the collection process ends with an error:

  Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this  computer.
  

  Verify that the domain user stored in CA SRM for the proxy server has all the privileges to login to the domain.

• Remote agent installation requires that the ADMIN$ administrative share exist on every target computer.
• To enable CA SRM to discover Windows domains, you must enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP using the Network Connections settings in the Windows Control Panel. For more information, see your Windows Systems Administrator.
• The maximum length of a file or directory path is 512 characters.

Use the following list to check for data collection prerequisites:

• The CA SRM agent requires the Log On Locally right. Users defined for data collection must have this right on every Windows computer managed by CA SRM.
• CA SRM uses standard Microsoft APIs to collect volume and user information. To enable data collection, the Windows user must be a member of one of the following:
  • Local Group Account (for every Managed Computer)—Authorized as an Account Operator or Local Administrator
  • Global Group Account (for every Windows domain)—Authorized as a Communication, Print, Backup, or Server Operator

  The rights of the Windows user defined for data collection applies to file collection.

• CA SRM collects top-level administrative shares and registers them as volumes in the database.