Smarts: How do you bypass the auto login feature in smarts

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

How do you disable the auto login feature?
 

Note: Passwords are not stored in the rps file, but are kept in the client and serverConnect.conf files.  Therefore, you cannot completely by-pass these files for authentication unless you have the following setup:

1. The clientConnect.conf file has an entry in the User Access section as follows:
   *:*:<PROMPT>:<PROMPT>
2. Using this location as your base <IPBASEDIR>/smarts/bin run this command:
   1. ./sm_edit serverConnect.conf 
   2. Comment the above entry as so:   
   3. # *:*:<PROMPT>:<PROMPT>
   4. Restart the Domain. 

NOTE: The username and password that you want to use should exist as an account on the OS that has SAM installed.

1. Add the following line via dmctl:
   dmctl -s <SAM> create ICS_User::ICS-User-<usrname>
   Where <usrname> is the same user name as the one on the OS account in step 3 above.
2. Start a SAM console and open the Global Manager Administration Console.  In the Users section, select the new user account and enable it via the GUI.