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.

About this task

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

Procedure

  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.