IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager, Version 2.0

Removing credentials from the credential vault

As a privileged administrator, you can remove credentials from the credential vault.

Before you begin

Depending on how your system administrator customized your system, you might not have access to this task. To obtain access to this task or to have someone complete it for you, contact your system administrator.

Ensure that you created an access control item (ACI) for the protection category of Credential. For more information about ACIs, see Access control item management.

About this task

This task removes credentials from the credential vault. The credentials are also removed automatically from all shared access policies that reference them. If all credentials referenced by a policy are deleted by this operation, the entire policy is also deleted.

Procedure

To remove credentials from the credential vault, complete these steps:

  1. From the navigation tree, click Manage Shared Access > Manage Credential Vault. The Select a Credential page is displayed.
  2. Click Search to locate the credentials that you want to view. If you do not specify any additional information, the search includes all login IDs and services in the credential vault. To limit the scope of the search, complete these steps:
    1. In the Login ID field, specify a login ID associated with the credentials. For example, type bsmith.
    2. Enter a specific resource name in the Resource name field. For example, type AIX_Service. You can also specify a wildcard, such as *AIX* to find all resources that contain that term in the name.
    3. Optional: Click Advanced. The advanced search option opens a new page where you can specify additional search criteria. For information about the Advanced search fields, see Fields for Advanced search for credentials.
    The credentials that match the search criteria are displayed in the Credentials table.
    If the table contains multiple pages, you can:
    • Click the arrow to go to the next page.
    • Type the number of the page that you want to view and click Go.
  3. Select the check box next to one or more credentials that you want to remove.
  4. Click Delete.
  5. On the Confirm page, click Delete. The Success page is displayed, indicating that the delete operation was successful.
  6. On the Success page, click Close.


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