Cognos
Analytics uses the external content store
password that is stored in the OpenShift® secret. Complete the following steps to update the password stored in the OpenShift secret.
Before you begin
Ensure you meet the following prerequisites:
- You installed and provisioned the Cognos
Analytics
service on IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
- You have access to a Mac OS or Linux®
computer that meets the following conditions:
- The computer can connect to the cluster.
- The
oc
command is installed.
- You can log in to the OpenShift cluster as a cluster administrator.
- You know the name of the OpenShift project where the Cognos
Analytics service is
installed.
About this task
You need to know what you want the new content store password to be.
Procedure
- From your local client, log in to OpenShift as a cluster administrator.
Tip: Use the Copy Login Command option in the OpenShift web console to get the
oc
login command.
- Convert the new content store password to base64.
For example, if your new
content store password is
Cognos456!
, run the following command to convert the
password:
echo -n 'Cognos456!' | base64
The result looks
similar to the following output:
Q29nbm9zNDU2IQ==
- Identify the secret object that is used for the content store.
- Run the following command to get the secrets in the OpenShift project where Cognos
Analytics is deployed:
oc get secrets -n OpenShift_Project | grep cs-creds
Replace OpenShift_Project
with the project where Cognos
Analytics is deployed.
- Look for a secret that looks similar to the following example:
ca1592234996446-cs-creds Opaque 2 25h
- Edit the secret that you identified in the previous step.
- Run the following command to edit the secret:
oc edit secret ca-cs-creds_Secret -n OpenShift_Project
Replace ca-cs-creds_Secret
with the ID of the secret from the
previous step.
Replace OpenShift_Project
with the project where Cognos
Analytics is deployed.
- In the secret object definition YAML file, update the
content_store_password
entry.
Paste the base64 encoded password that you generated in a preceding step.
For example,
content_store_password: Q29nbm9zNDU2IQ==
- Restart the Cognos
Analytics pods.
Run the following shutdown.sh commands to shut down and restart the Cognos
Analytics instance:
./shutdown.sh -t ${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE_TETHERED}
./shutdown.sh -t ${PROJECT_CPD_INSTANCE_TETHERED} -r
For more information about creating the shutdown.sh script, see Creating administration scripts.
- Wait until the restart action is complete and the pods are in the
Ready
state.