How can we manually encrypt passwords in Service Catalog?

Products

• CA Service Catalog
• CA Service Management - Asset Portfolio Management
• CA Service Management - Service Desk Manager

Issue/Introduction

In the config.properties file, there are lines that include encrypted passwords. Apart from running the Service Catalog setup application.

Is there another way to encrypt these passwords?

Environment

CA Service Catalog 17.1 and higher

Resolution

Password encryption can be done by running the encrypter.bat script which is located in %USM_HOME%\scripts. You pass the password to be encrypted as the only parameter and the output of the command is the encrypted password:

C:\Program Files\CA\Service Catalog\scripts>encrypter.bat ##########
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