Service

Cygna Auditor platform employs Windows services to collect data from your sources. By default, the Local System account is used to run services but you can opt to specify any other Active Directory account.

The service account settings are configured under Configuration / System Configuration / Service.

To update your preferences:

1. Specify the account to run services.

   • Select Run services as Local System on the computer to impersonate as the Local System account.
   • Select Run services as a specified domain user to utilize any Active Directory account of your choice that has sufficient permissions to log in as a service on a given machine. Make sure to verify credentials.

2. Provide administrative credentials. Making changes to Cygna Auditor platform requires a service restart, Cygna Auditor will use the credentials you specify to automatically update and restart the service. Make sure to verify the credentials.

   Note: Make sure the account you specify has sufficient permissions to modify services.