Creating secrets to protect sensitive configuration data
A secret is an object that contains a small amount of sensitive data such as a password, a token, or a key. Before you install IBM Business Automation Workflow, you must create secrets manually for LDAP, Business Automation Workflow, Application Engine, Resource Registry, IBM FileNet® Content Manager, and IBM Business Automation Navigator.
About this task
All values under
data
in each secret must be Base64 encoded. To get a
Base64-encoded string, run the following
command:echo -n "<sample_string>" | base64
The output is the
Base64-encoded result.Procedure
What to do next
To prepare the required storage, see Preparing storage.