What is Run As Account and How to create a Run As account and associate with a Run As profile

 Run as Account and Run as Profile

Basically run as account is a Windows account that can be associated with the rules and can use Windows authentication and plan basic digest simple or binary methods for authentication.

Run as Account defines which credentials will be used for certain actions that can be carried out by the operation manager Agent and these accounts centrally managed by the SCOM Console.

We assign dedicated account to execute or push task from SCOM operation console to client machine that is Run As Account, 

Run as Account is associated with Run as profile.  And run as profile is associated with workflow.

How to Create Run as Account

Login to SCOM Operation console -> Click Administration 

Right click and select Create Run as Account

Click Next

Select Account Type from Run as Account type:

Give Display Name and Description

Enter User name

And Password

Select security level as per your requirement

Click create

How to Associate Run as Account with Run as profile

Now go to Administration -> Click profiles 

Select profile from the list to associate Run as Account

Double click on profile

Click next

Click Add button -> Select account from Run As account drop down list

If you want to manage All target object with the same Run As account then click all target else a selected class.

Filter by:  Type object name 

Select Object and click Add

Click Save

Thank you all done!