XIA Automation Administrator's Guide

The following steps describe how to manually change the web server application pool account after XIA Automation Server has been installed.

WARNING: This process is not recommended, the installer should be used to assign the web server application pool account.

• Ensure you have a full system backup of the server.
  
  
• Create the user account that is to be used as the web server application pool account following the guidelines in the web server application pool account section.
  
  
• Add the web server application pool account to the IIS_USRS group.
  
  
• Open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager tool, and stop the XIA Automation application pool.
  
  
  
  

• In the advanced settings of the application pool modify the Identity property.
  
  
  
  
• Set the credentials for the web server application pool account.
  
  
  
  
• Modify the NTFS permissions on the App_Data directory, this is located by default in the following location.
  C:\Program Files\CENTREL Solutions\XIA Automation\XIA Automation Server\App_Data
  
  
• Remove the previous web server application pool account from the access control list, and ensure that the new web server application pool account has full control.
  
  
  
  
• Start the XIA Automation application pool.
  
  
• Test that the XIA Automation Server can be accessed through a web interface, and that scheduled tasks work as expected before proceeding.