Setting up Run As credentials for SnapCenter Custom Plug-ins

SnapCenter uses Run As credentials to authenticate users for SnapCenter operations. You should create Run As credentials for installing SnapCenter plug-ins and additional Run As credentials for performing data protection operations on databases or Windows file systems.

About this task

Linux hosts

You must set up Run As credentials for installing plug-ins on Linux hosts.

You must set up the Run As credentials for the root user or for a non-root user who has sudo privileges to install and start the plug-in process.

Best Practice: Although you are allowed to create Run As credentials for Linux after deploying hosts and installing plug-ins, the best practice is to create Run As credentials after you add SVMs, before you deploy hosts and install plug-ins.

Windows hosts
You must set up Windows Run As credentials before installing plug-ins.

You must set up the Run As credentials with administrator privileges, including administrator rights on the remote host.
Custom Plug-ins applications
The plug-in uses the Run As credentials that are selected or created while adding a resource. If a resource does not require Run As credentials during data protection operations, you can set the Run As credentials as None.

If you set up Run As credentials for individual resource groups and the username does not have full admin privileges, you must assign at least the resource group and backup privileges to the username.

Steps

In the left navigation pane, click Settings.
In the Settings page, click Run As Credentials.
Click New.

In the Run As Credentials page, specify the information required for configuring Run As credentials:

For this field…	Do this…
Run As name	Enter a name for the Run As credentials.
User name	Enter the user name and password that are to be used for authentication. Domain administrator or any member of the administrator group Specify the domain administrator or any member of the administrator group on the system on which you are installing the SnapCenter plug-in. Valid formats for the `Username` field are: `NetBIOS\UserName` `Domain FQDN\UserName` Local administrator (for workgroups only) For systems that belong to a workgroup, specify the built-in local administrator on the system on which you are installing the SnapCenter plug-in. You can specify a local user account that belongs to the local administrators group if the user account has elevated privileges or the User Access control feature is disabled on the host system. The valid format for the `Username` field is: `UserName`
Password	Enter the password used for authentication.
Authentication Mode	Select the authentication mode that you want to use. If you select the SQL authentication mode, you must also specify the SQL server instance and the host where the SQL instance is located.
Use sudo privileges	Select the Use sudo privileges check box if you are creating Run As credentials for a non-root user. Note: Applicable to Linux users only.

Click OK.

After you finish

After you finish setting up the Run As credentials, you might want to assign Run As credential maintenance to a user or group of users on the My SnapCenter Assets page.