How to change password for ServiceDesk and mdbadmin users

Products

• CA IT Asset Manager
• CA Software Asset Manager (CA SAM)
• ASSET PORTFOLIO MGMT- SERVER
• SUPPORT AUTOMATION- SERVER
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• CA Service Desk Manager
• CA Service Management - Asset Portfolio Management
• CA Service Management - Service Desk Manager

Issue/Introduction

I would like to change the password for the Privileged User and/or the MDB Database userid. How can this be accomplished?

This document describes how to change the following passwords used in Service Desk:

• Privileged User (Default User Name: ServiceDesk)
• MDB Database UserID (Default UserID: mdbadmin)

These passwords are all required for the Service Desk "Configuration" process (pdm_configure.exe).

Knowledge of the existing passwords is not required for this procedure, and so is useful for addressing "unknown passwords."

Environment

Release: CACMDB99000-11.1-CMDB
Component:

Resolution

WARNINGS:

• Failure to successfully complete these steps may render a Service Desk system inoperable.
   
• Existing passwords will be overwritten and are NOT readily recoverable.

For Service Desk Privileged User and Restricted User passwords:

1. Change the password/s at the OS level. See your operating system guide for details.
   
   NOTE: If the Service Desk Primary server is NOT defined as a domain controller, the user is on the local machine as a local user.
   
   If the Service Desk Primary server is defined as a domain controller, the user is on domain controller (Active Directory) as a domain user.
    
2. Run pdm_configure. Use the new passwords during this process.

For the MDB Database Userid:

1. Change the password in a Database server.
    
2. Run pdm_configure.

All of the passwords may be changed with one run of pdm_configure.