IBM Storage Protect Snapshot password file

The password file contains a master password that is required by the application agents or offload agents when they are authenticating or connecting to the Management Agent. When IBM Storage Protect Snapshot agents are running in a distributed environment across multiple servers, separate password file instances can be used for different nodes. In a distributed environment, you must ensure that each local password file instance contains all the passwords that are needed by the agents that are running on the node. The master password must be included in all instances. When backup and clone servers are set up with the Configuration Wizard the passwords are automatically made available on all servers.

A password file is created during the IBM Storage Protect Snapshot configuration process. An example of the path to the password file is <ACS_DIR>/shared/pwd.acsd where, <ACS_DIR> is the value of the ACS_DIR parameter in the profile. In basic mode, the master password is not prompted as it is generated automatically if it is not set earlier. A generated password is available as the default password in advanced mode.

The minimum length of the master password is 8 characters. The password must contain at least one number and one letter. The use of special symbols increases the strength of the password.