Changing the passwords in the password file

All passwords that a Collector Server instance needs are stored in the password file. You add the passwords to the password file when you start the Collector Server instance. If the password of a user or keystore changes, for example, because your company policy requires that passwords are changed at regular intervals, you must also change it in the password file.

Before you begin

Starting a Collector Server instance

About this task

You can add passwords to, or change them in, the password file when you start the Collector Server instance. Use either of these procedures:

Procedure

  • Fix Pack 1 If you start a Collector Server instance from IBM Content Navigator, specify the new or changed passwords in the Start Instance window.
  • If you use a command line to start a Collector Server instance, complete these steps:
    1. Open a command line and change to the instance directory.
    2. Enter the following command:
      archpro -i profile -f parameters

      profile stands for the fully qualified file name of the server configuration profile. If you enter the command from the directory that contains the server configuration profile and if the server configuration profile has the default name archint.ini, -i profile is optional.

      parameters stands for the parameter or parameters that you must specify to change a specific password in the password file. For example, to change the password the of CPIC user that Collector Server uses to log on to an SAP client, enter the following command:

      archpro -f r3passwd

      You are prompted for the new password.

    3. Enter the appropriate command for each password that you want to change in the password file.

      For more information about this command and the parameters that you can specify, see archpro.

    4. Enter archpro to start the Collector Server instance.