https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006618#M27569 I also use a local admin account on my SIMS server. However, this account must also be a member of domain users and in a group that can access your domains servers.<BR /><BR />These errors might be occuring when the SIMS server tried to access a domain server.<BR />I believe our account is in an AD built in security group, server operator group. Thu, 24 May 2007 10:58:57 GMT Rancher 2007-05-24T10:58:57Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006614#M27565 Hello everyone,<BR /><BR />i have read a lot of threads in this forum about changing the Admin PW, but none of all those solutions out there helps me.<BR /><BR />I have changed the Service-Account of HP SIM (it now run with the local admin account).<BR />Since i did this, HP SIM records thousands of "Login failed Authentication" events for the local Administrator.<BR /><BR />I have also changed the passwords of HP SIM with the mxpassword tool, but this had no effect.<BR /><BR />Another problem is, that the server is running at 100% cpu all the time!<BR /><BR />The processes causing this are mxpassword.exe and sometimes mxdomainmgr.exe<BR /><BR />i have no more idea what can i do .. maybe somone of you guys can help me?<BR /><BR />Thanks in advance!<BR /> Thu, 24 May 2007 10:06:10 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006614#M27565 Christian777 2007-05-24T10:06:10Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006615#M27566 Did you verify SA account connections ? Thu, 24 May 2007 10:33:31 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006615#M27566 Daniel Leblanc 2007-05-24T10:33:31Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006616#M27567 I checked all the ODBC connections and they reported successfully.<BR /><BR />SQLServer service starts and I can open and log on to the Homepage of SIM, but I have thousands of Login Failed Authentication errors (appearing every 10 seconds).<BR /><BR />Did you need any further informations?<BR /> Thu, 24 May 2007 10:47:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006616#M27567 Christian777 2007-05-24T10:47:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006617#M27568 btw, the odbc connection is configured to use Windows NT authentication instead of sql server authentication.<BR /> Thu, 24 May 2007 10:50:28 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006617#M27568 Christian777 2007-05-24T10:50:28Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006618#M27569 I also use a local admin account on my SIMS server. However, this account must also be a member of domain users and in a group that can access your domains servers.<BR /><BR />These errors might be occuring when the SIMS server tried to access a domain server.<BR />I believe our account is in an AD built in security group, server operator group. Thu, 24 May 2007 10:58:57 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006618#M27569 Rancher 2007-05-24T10:58:57Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006619#M27570 Hi,<BR /><BR />correct me if i am wrong, but a local Admin account cannot be a member of a domain group .. or what did you mean?!<BR /><BR />Our local admin account can access all other servers as well..<BR /><BR /><BR /> Thu, 24 May 2007 11:05:22 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/changing-administrator-pw-crashes-sim/m-p/4006619#M27570 Christian777 2007-05-24T11:05:22Z