Remote log file monitoring: Encrypting a password or pass phrase
For increased security, you can encrypt passwords and pass phrases that are transmitted to remote systems when you use Remote log file monitoring.
About this task
Procedure
Run the itmpwdsnmp command and supply
the password or pass phrase that is to be encrypted:
- The command is run from the Cloud APM installation directory. The default installation path is opt/ibm/apm/agent and install_dir is where you installed the agent.
- The default installation path is C:\IBM\APM.
Example of the command when it is run on a Linux
system:
$ export install_dir=/opt/ibm/apm/agent/bin
$ /opt/ibm/apm/agent/bin
Enter string to be encrypted:
mypassword
Confirm string:
mypassword
{AES256:keyfile:a}Z7BS23aupYqwlXb1Gh+weg==
$
In the example, the entire output from the
{AES256:keyfile:a}Z7BS23aupYqwlXb1Gh+weg==
command is used to set
SshPassword in the agent configuration file. The
{AES256:keyfile:a}
prefix tells the agent that the password is encrypted.
To encrypt a pass phrase for a private key file, follow the same procedure.