4.1 General Preparations

Initially, the UNIX user executing the installation and later on running pico processes in the Execution Container  must be created, preferably mzadmin, which is referenced throughout this document.

During the installation procedure, the default application user, mzadmin, is automatically created - note that this is not related to the OS user or the DB user. You cannot create or use other application users than this default user until after the installation is complete.

It is not recommended to use root as mzadmin, since this will make troubleshooting difficult. should always be administrated by users belonging to the access groups created in . See the Desktop documentation for further information on how to create users and access groups.

The next step is to install the necessary third party products, i e Java. For further information, see 1. System Requirements