What are the parameters for supplying credentials to the gfxd shut-down-all command when authentication is turned on?

Products

• Pivotal GemFire XD

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

Using either built-in or LDAP authentication the cluster starts up fine but trying to use shut-down-all fails with a 'Failed to find credentials in JOIN-REQ message when providing the user and password to the shut-down-all command.

gfxd shut-down-all -locators=localhost[11111] -user=<user> -password=<password>

Environment

Resolution

When using shut-down-all several parameters are needed besides the user and password. The following example shows parameters for when using built-in authentication:

gfxd shut-down-all -locators=localhost[11111] -auth-provider=BUILTIN -gemfirexd.sql-authorization=TRUE -user=<user> -password=<password> -gemfirexd.user.<username>=<password>