Smarts Console: How to auto-populate username and password information in the console login screen

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


Smarts Console: How to auto-populate username and password information in the console login screen

Each time a user starts the Smarts GUI Console they need to enter username and password information, is it possible to auto-populate these fields

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

To automatically log in without typing in username and password. place the following lines into the

BASEDIR/smarts/local/conf/console/properties.conf file:

com.smarts.userid=<yourUserId>
com.smarts.password=<<yourPassword>

Additional Information

Sample file example:

This is a Java properties file.
Properties included in this file take precedence over properties sent from the command line (via sm_gui -D).
Leading and trailing blanks are stripped from parameter values.
If you have a property which you want to have leading or trailing blanks, enclose that parameter in double quotes.
example:
     some.parameter="  I am a value with leading and trailing blanks  "
     Uncomment out the following line and replace <host> with hostname, if running Tom Sawyer Servlet Map Layout Engine
     com.smarts.layoutServlet=http://<host>:8080/TSS/LayoutServer
     com.smarts.OemCustomization=NONE
     com.smarts.userid=admin
     com.smarts.password=changeme
     com.smarts.autoAttachDM=<SAMServerToConnectTo>