Article ID: 199234 - Last Review: October 27, 2006 - Revision: 3.2

SMS: Systems Management Server 2.0 System Accounts

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SUMMARY

The purpose of this article is to help administrators understand the number of accounts that may be created as sites are added to the Systems Management Server hierarchy. Systems Management Server 2.0 creates and uses more domain accounts than are used in Systems Management Server 1.2. A typical Systems Management Server 2.0 installation will create the accounts listed in the MORE INFORMATION section of this article on the site server if it is the only computer with Systems Management Server 2.0 installed.

MORE INFORMATION

The accounts are as follows:

SMS Client Network Connection Account
This domain account is created by Setup. Only one per site is created; however, the administrator can create as many accounts as are required to address specific security issues.
SMS Server Network Connection Account
Setup creates one of these accounts per site.
SMS Remote Service Account
You may have more than two of these accounts, depending on the number of remote client access points (CAPs) that have been installed.
SMSCliToknAcct& Account
This is an internal Systems Management Server account. Only one of these accounts is created per domain, regardless of the number of sites installed within that domain.
SMS&_<Domain_Controller_Name> Account
One of these accounts is created for each domain controller in the enumerated domain, regardless of the number of sites within that domain.

To calculate the number of accounts that Systems Management Server will generate upon installation of the hierarchy, use the following guidelines:

SMS Client Network Connection account:   1 x <number of sites in domain>
SMS Server Network Connection account:   1 x <number of sites>
SMS Remote Service account:              2 x <number of CAPs per site>
                                         (default is 1 CAP per site)
SMSCliToknAcct& account:                 1 x <number of domains>
SMS&_<DC_Name> account:                  1 x <number of DCs in the 
                                         enumerated domain, regardless of
                                         the number of sites

The following is an example.

A medium-sized company containing 10 domain controllers; there are nine resource domains and one master domain. Each domain controller is its own Systems Management Server site server. The total number of accounts created may be similar to the following:

SMS Client Network Connection account:   1 x 10 =  10   1 site per domain
SMS Server Network Connection account:   1 x 10 =  10
SMS Remote Service account:              2 x 10 =  20
SMSCliToknAcct& account:                 1 x 10 =  10
SMS&_<DC_Name> account:                  1 x 10 =  10
                                          Total :  60 accounts