During Experience Portal software installation, the following user accounts are created for use on various systems to support Experience Portal operation and management.
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System
User name
Password
Purpose
EPM web interface
User defined
User defined
The Experience Portal administrator uses this account to administer and configure the Experience Portal system.
PostgreSQL on the primary and optional auxiliary EPM server
postgres
Automatically generated
Since Experience Portal 7.0, this password is automatically generated in the database configuration file. This password is no longer user defined as in the case of previous releases.
EPM uses this account to log in to the Experience Portal database to store and retrieve data.
The database administrator uses this account to access the Experience Portal database to install new updates or patches and perform database backups.
Note:
If you make changes to the Experience Portal database, the EPM might not function properly, and data might be lost. You must then reinstall the EPM software.
PostgreSQL on the primary and optional auxiliary EPM server
User defined
Default user name is: report
User Defined
This user account allows external Experience Portal servers to read the data in the tables that store report data on the Primary EPM server.
PostgreSQL on the optional auxiliary EPM server
User defined
Default user name is: reportwriter
User defined
This user account can only change the data in the tables that store report data in the Experience Portal database on the Auxiliary EPM server.
Linux on the EPM server
postgres
User defined
Used to run the psql tool for interactive database access and internally used to run database processes.
Note:
If you make manual changes to the Experience Portal database, the EPM might not function properly, and data might be lost. You must reinstall the EPM software.
Linux on the EPM and MPP servers
avayavp
Login disabled
Used internally to run some Experience Portal processes.
apache (UCID 48)
Login disabled
This account is created when the httpd RPM is installed and it is used by the Apache server.
