Starting ELMA Server as a Specific User

For an ODBC data source to work correctly, the same PC user, who created the data source, must start ELMA server.

IIS Server

If ELMA BPM is installed on the IIS server, then follow these procedures to start ELMA server as a specific user:

1. Open the server manager. Go to Roles – Web Server (IIS) – Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Open Application Pools (fig. 1).

2. In the opened list, select the ELMA server, open its context menu and select Advanced Settings (fig. 1).

Fig. 1. Server Manager.

3. In the advanced settings window, select Identity and click

next to it (fig. 2).

Fig. 2. Pool advanced settings.

4. In the Application Pool Identity window, select Custom account and click Set (fig. 3).

Fig. 3. Application pool identity.

5. In the opened Set Credentials window, enter login and password of the PC user, who created the ODBC data source (fig. 4).

Fig. 4. Setting credentials

If ELMA is installed on a local server, then follow these procedures to start ELMA server as a specific user:

Open Services, find the ELMA server and open its properties (fig. 5).
On the Log On tab select This account and enter the login and password of the user, who created the ODBC data source.

Fig. 5. Services