Setting permissions for non-administrator user IDs

If the user ID that you use to start, run, and stop the ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere® MQ (the default is Localsystem) is not a member of the Administrators group, you must set permissions for the user ID to ensure that the agent can be started and stopped successfully.

1. Log on to the Windows system as a system administrator.
2. Click Start > Run, and then type regedit.exe to open the Registry Editor.
3. In the Registry Editor, locate the following key:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Candle

4. Right-click the key and click Permissions.
5. Click Add to add the user ID for ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere MQ into the Group or user names list if it is not already in the list.
6. Click the user ID.
7. In the Permissions for the user-ID list, where user-ID is the user ID of ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere MQ, select Full Control in the Allow column and click OK.
8. Locate the following key in the Registry Editor:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib

9. Right-click the key and click Permissions.
10. Click Add to add the user ID for ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere MQ into the Group or user names list if it is not already in the list.
11. Click the user ID.
12. In the Permissions for the user-ID list, where user-ID is the user ID of ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere MQ, select Read in the Allow column and click OK.
13. Close the Registry Editor.
14. Locate the install_dir directory, where install_dir is the directory where IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring is installed. The default is C:\IBM\ITM.
15. Right-click the directory and click Properties.
16. On the Security tab, add the user ID for ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere MQ agent into the Group or user names list if it is not already in the list.
17. Click the user ID.
18. In the Permissions for the user-ID list, select Full control in the Allow column, where user-ID is the user ID of ITCAM configuration agent for WebSphere MQ.
19. Click OK.