Changing the api password

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

The default api user and password needs to be updated for security reasons.

Environment

7.x Watch4Net

Resolution

• Generate a new password using the crypt-password.sh utility

  APG/bin/crypt-password.sh newpassword

• Copy the encrypted password output including the { and } characters.  ie {12345ABC}
• Updated the passwords in the following files with the new encrypted password that was generated.

  APG/Tools/Webservice-Gateway/Default/conf/users
  APG/Tools/Remote-SNMP-Collector-CLI/Default/conf/ws.properties
  APG/Event-Processing/Event-Database-Migration/<instance>/conf/event-database-reader.xml
  APG/Event-Processing/Event-Database-Migration/<instance>/conf/event-database-reader-DS.xml
  APG/Custom/WebApps-Resources/Default/scheduling/scheduling-servers.xml
  APG/Collecting/Load-Balancer/Load-Balancer/conf/balancer-connector.xml
  APG/Event-Processing/Trap-Receiver/Alert-Consolidation/conf/ws.properties

• Restart the following services

  tomcat
  trap receiver
  event processing manager
  Load balancer Collector Manager

• If there are multiple instances of the above process in addition to Default, those will need to be restarted as well.
• Update the api password in the ui
  
• Resync the client certificates
  
• Verify that the arrow turns green.
• Verify that the new password via the http api call

  APG/Tools/Administration-Tool/Default/bin/administration-tool.sh https://admin:[PASSWORD]@[server]:48443/Tools/Administration-Tool/Default/listUser?disableSSLValidation=true