Update Siteminder AdminUI External Directory Admin password

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Agents (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

This KB illustrates how to change The Admin password of the External Store configured with the Adminui

Environment

Release : 12.7, 12.8 

Component : SITEMINDER -WEB AGENT FOR APACHE

Resolution

1) Stop the Adminui (it must be stopped otherwise the password change will fail)

2) Run the below in order

NOTE --> Change the path to your Adminui Install location , below sample from my environment.

export JBOSS_HOME="/opt/CA/siteminder/adminui"
export JAVA_HOME="$JBOSS_HOME/runtime"
export LAUNCHER_JAR="$JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/iam_siteminder.ear/library/webadmin-configuration-launcher.jar"
export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dprogram.name=smjndisetup"
export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsiteminder.launcher.main=com.ca.siteminder.tools.jndisetup.JNDISetup"
export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dderby.system.home=$JBOSS_HOME/standalone/data/derby"
eval \"$JAVA_HOME/bin/java\" $JAVA_OPTS -jar \"$LAUNCHER_JAR\" -rp -s -u CN=AAAAAA -p password_value

once Executed , you should get a message like this


[root@lvntest003623 bin]# eval \"$JAVA_HOME/bin/java\" $JAVA_OPTS -jar \"$LAUNCHER_JAR\" -rp -s -u "cn=uiadmin,ou=people,dc=joeuserstore,dc=com" -p siteminder
Please start the Administrative UI to see your changes.


3) start the Adminui

4) Test The access