Configure a custom encryption key for passwords in properties files

Applies to:

You can configure a custom encryption key to encrypt the passwords that are stored in properties files.

Note: If you already configured a custom key but the properties of the key changed, see Updating the encryption keystore.

You need to do the following tasks to use a custom key to encrypt passwords that are stored in property files:

Create a file that contains the encryption keystore and key pair. See Create the encryption keystore file and key pair.
Set up the encryption keystore. Setting up the encryption keystore
Create a keystore.properties file. See The keystore.properties file.
Update the property files on all application servers to use the custom encryption key. See Updating property files on application servers to use a custom key.
Update property files on all reporting servers to use the custom encryption key. See Updating property files on reporting servers to use a custom key.
If you use global search, update property files on the search server to use the custom encryption key. See Updating property files on the search server to use a custom key.