Spectrum 21.2.1 Account Lockout Feature

Products

• CA Spectrum
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

For Spectrum 21.2.1, there is a new account lock feature that will lock the account after 5 failed attempts.

When attempting to login we see the following error: SPC-OCA-10707: Your account has been temporarily locked for 10 minutes due to 5 failed login attempts.  Please try again later.

Environment

Release : 21.2.1 and higher versions

Component : Spectrum OneClick

Resolution

You can configure the maximum number of attempts for locking out a user and the duration of lockout by modifying the context.xml file.

Follow these steps:

• Open the $SPECROOT/tomcat/webapps/spectrum/META-INF/context.xml file.
• Modify the following parameters as per your requirements:

failureCount
Specifies the number of continuous failed login attempts before locking out the user.
Default: 5

lockOutTime
Specifies the lockout duration in seconds. Set value to zero to disable the lockout option.
Default: 600

• Restart the Tomcat.

Additional Information

Please reference the "Lockout a User" section of the documentation for more information.