Best Practice setting up mutiple SQL Agent Domain Accounts???

• Jeff-67583

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  February 11, 2004 at 8:42 am

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  Hi,

  What is the best practice/considerations in setting up the MSSQL and SQL Agent services for multiple servers? I want to use the same domain account for both services. However, should each server use a different domain account, or should all servers use the same 1 account? My initial thought is that how do you tell your alerts generated from the different servers?

  ie: Server 1 = for both services uses ... YourDomain\SqlService1

  Server 2 = for both services uses ... YourDomain\SqlService2

  Server 3 = for both services uses ... YourDomain\SqlService3

  or

  Server 1 = for both services uses ... YourDomain\SqlService1

  Server 2 = for both services uses ... YourDomain\SqlService1

  Server 3 = for both services uses ... YourDomain\SqlService1

  Many thanks. Jeff

  Many thanks. Jeff

• Jack Corbett

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  February 12, 2004 at 6:48 am

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  Alerts emailed to an Operator include the Server Name.  So I wouold use one account.

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