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The following table lists various user accounts that are created and used by BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation.

User accounts created or used/ Account Type	Purpose	Is the default password set?	Change in default password required?	Privileges	Account created by	Password storage location	Encryption mechanism
blauth OS	Runs the authentication service	NA	NA	Owns the blauthserver files	Product installer	NA	NA
daemon OS	Runs the httpd server	NA	NA	Depends on the OS	OS	NA	NA
ReportsSystem Application	Used to modify the BMC BladeLogic data (reporting) model. This account is specific to Cognos.	Yes Note: In versions earlier than 8.5.01, you cannot change the default password for this user account.	No	Can log on to Cognos for administration; however, cannot see any data	Product installer	Database	Encrypted by the Bladelogic encryption mechanism
BL_Reader Application	Used to see ETL status and errors in ETL runs	No	NA	Can view the ETL status This user is a read-only user.	Product installer	Database	Encrypted by the Oracle Data Integrator tool
BDSSA_DW Database (SQL Server)	Owns the warehouse database schema	Yes	Change according to your database policy	Is owner (dbo) of the reports database Is the default database, BSARA_DW_DB Executes ETL jobs (using JDBC connectivity) by reading data from the BMC Server Automation database across the database link Connects to the IBM Cognos reports layer and executes report queries	Database creation script	NA	NA
BDSSA_ETL_MASTER Database (SQL Server)	Owns the ETL master schema	Yes	Change according to your database policy	Is owner (dbo) of the ETL master repository database Is the default database, BSARA_ETL_MASTER_DB Uses JDBC connectivity for ETL job execution	Database creation script	NA	NA
BDSSA_ETL_WORK Database (SQL Server)	Owns the ETL work schema	Yes	Change according to your database policy	Is owner (dbo) of the ETL work repository database Is the default database, BSARA_ETL_WORK_DB Uses JDBC connectivity for ETL job execution	Database creation script	NA	NA
BDSSA_PORTAL Database (SQL Server)	Owns the Cognos portal database schema	Yes	Change according to your database policy	Is owner (dbo) of the portal content store database Is the default database, BSARA_PORTAL_DB	Database creation script	NA	NA
BDSSA_DW Database (Oracle)	Owns the warehouse database schema	Yes	Change according to your database policy	Is owner of the reports database objects. Executes ETL jobs (using JDBC connectivity) by reading data from the BMC Server Automation database across the database link. Connects to the IBM Cognos reports layer and executes report queries	Database creation script	NA	NA
BDSSA_ETL_MASTER Database (Oracle)	Owns the ETL master schema	Yes	Change according to your database policy	Is owner of the ETL master repository objects. Uses JDBC connectivity for ETL job execution	Database creation script	NA	NA
BDSSA_ETL_WORK Database (Oracle)	Owns the ETL work schema	Yes	Change according to your database policy	Is owner of the ETL work repository objects Uses JDBC connectivity for ETL job execution	Database creation script	NA	NA
BDSSA_PORTAL Database (Oracle)	Owns the Cognos portal database schema	Yes	Change according to your database policy	Is owner of the portal content store objects	Database creation script	NA	NA

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