Configuring a user key

After you install or upgrade IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor, you can configure the user key if you want to encrypt your IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor root passphrase with your own key.

To configure a user key, you must be an IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor administrator. To configure a user key:

  1. Stop all your IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor event processors (EPs).
  2. In the installation_directory/bin directory, run the following command:
    Microsoft Windows UNIX
    configUserKey.bat configUserKey.sh
  3. Enter your self-defined user key.
  4. Re-enter your user key.
  5. In a high availability environment, run the following command for all other EPs:
    Microsoft Windows UNIX
    configUserKey.bat -sync configUserKey.sh -sync
  6. Restart all EPs in the cluster.