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Review Requirements

Review the following requirements before you start changing user permissions of the CA Virtual Assurance database user:

• You are familiar with the administration of Windows Server and SQL Server.
• The system on which you want to install CA Virtual Assurance meets the requirements that are specified in the Release Notes.
• SQL Server is installed according to the requirements specified in the Installation Guide and Release Notes.
• You can use SQL Server Authentication or Windows Authentication.
• You can use one of the following account types to install CA Virtual Assurance:
  • The domain user (domain\domainuser)
  • The local user (system\localuser)
  • The local administrator (system\administrator)

  The account that you want to use for the installation must be a member of the Administrators group.

• The examples in the scenario use the my_domain\my_account account (which is also a member of the Administrators group) to install CA Virtual Assurance.