How to change the metadata repository owner password in an IBM InfoSphere Information Server Enterprise Search environment

Steps

1) Address the metadata repository owner password change on the Information Server host by following the steps documented in Knowledge Center:

• Stand-alone environment
• Clustered environment

2) Login to the ISES host and do the following steps.

3) Get the base64 encoded form of the new password

     echo <xmeta password> | base64 -

4) Edit /home/mykubeadm1/manifests/xmeta_secret.yaml

     Update Line 7 using the value from step 3:
      xmeta-password: <old xmeta base64 encoded password>
                to be updated with
      xmeta-password: <new xmeta base64 encoded password>

     Save the file

5) Apply the updated yaml

     kubectl apply -f xmeta_secret.yaml

6) Use the following command to delete each of the pods listed below
     kubectl delete pod <pod name>

   audit-trail-service-xxxxx-xxx
   gov-app-config-service-xxxxx-xxx 
   gov-catalog-search-index-xxxxx-xxx
   gov-catalog-search-service-xxxxx-xxx
   gov-social-service-xxxxx-xxx
   gov-user-prefs-service-xxxxx-xxx
   shop4info-mappers-service-xxxxx-xxx