Lockbox Utility Guide

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

The document attached to this article addresses the following questions:

• What is the Smarts NCM lockbox?
• What are some of the basic components of the Smarts NCM lockbox?
• What commands are available in the Smarts NCM lockbox utility to help manage the lockbox?

Environment

NCM - 10.1.x

Resolution

The attached document describes the Smarts Network Configuration Manager Lockbox Utility and contains the following information:

• What is the lockbox and how does it work?
• Components of the Lockbox
• Passphrase
• System Fingerprint
• Ekey
• Hosts
• Lockbox utility
• Passphrase requirements
• Useful commands to manage Lockbox
• Add the distributed system hosts to the lockbox
• To unlock the lockbox
• To list the hostnames present in the lockbox use following commands
• To change the passphrase
• To generate a new lockbox