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title: Enabling Pivotal Account
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This topic describes Pivotal Account, a user management tool that allows users to create and manage their accounts. In the Pivotal Account dashboard, users can perform the following tasks:

* **Launch Applications**: Users can launch applications from the **Apps** tab of the Pivotal Account dashboard.
* **Manage User Profiles**: The **Profile** tab allows a user to update their email address and account information.
* **Manage Account Security**: The **Security** tab allows a user to update their password.
* **Manage Notifications**: Users can navigate to the **Notifications** tab to manage their Pivotal Cloud Foundry notifications.
* **Manage Approvals**: The **Approvals** tab shows the permissions that each user has for an application. The user can allow and revoke permissions for each application on this tab.

##<a id="prereq"></a>Prerequisites

You must have deployed the following in your PCF environment before using Pivotal Account:

* [Apps Manager](../console/index.html)
* [Notifications Service](../adminguide/notifications.html)


##<a id="installation"></a>Enable Pivotal Account

To enable Pivotal Account on Elastic Runtime as an errand, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Ops Manager **Installation Dashboard**.
1. Click the **Pivotal Elastic Runtime** tile.
1. Click the **Errands** pane, under **Settings**.
1. Enable **Push Pivotal Account**.
1. Click **Save**.
1. Return to the Ops Manager **Installation Dashboard** and click **Apply Changes**.

##<a id="access"></a>Access Pivotal Account

To access Pivotal Account:

1. Log in to Apps Manager.

1. In the upper right side of the dashboard, select **USERNAME** > **My Account**.
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1. You will land on the Pivotal Account page.
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