To secure your IBM® Sametime® deployment, you
may want to periodically change the administrator password on the Sametime System Console.
The password is stored in the IBM DB2® database used by the System
Console; if you want to use a deployment plan that was created under
the old password, you must update the database to register the new
password first.
About this task
The Sametime System
Console uses the administrator password created for the IBM WebSphere® Application
Server on which it is hosted. After you change the password in WebSphere Application Server,
you will register the System Console manually with the registerProduct utility
to store the updated password in the DB2 database. Although
you normally do not need to register the System Console with itself,
this is the only way to update its password in the database.
For
additional information about default paths, see Directory conventions.
Procedure
- Update the password in WebSphere Application
Server:
- Log in to the Integrated Solutions Console on the Sametime System Console.
- Click .
- In the "Search for Users" section, select User
ID in the Search by field, and
then type the WebSphere Application
Server administrator user name in the Search for field;
then click Search.
- In the results dialog box, click the user name to select
it.
- Type a new password in the Password and Confirm
Password fields.
- Click OK.
- Save the change to the master configuration by clicking
the Save link in the "Messages" box at the
beginning of the page.
- Unregister the Sametime System Console:
-
Obtain a copy of the
unregisterWASProduct.sh
(IBM
AIX®, Linux™) or unregisterWASProduct.bat
(Microsoft™
Windows™) utility by copying it from any WebSphere-based Sametime server.
The utility is stored in the following location:
- Sametime Proxy Server:
was_install_root/profiles/STPServerCell/console
- Sametime Media Manager:
was_install_root/profiles/STMSServerCell/console
- Sametime Meeting Server:
was_install_root/profiles/STMAServerCell/console
- Sametime Gateway:
stgw_server_root/console
- Move to the Sametime System Console,
open a command window, and place the utility in the following directory:
was_install rootSTSCServerCell/console
- Run the unregistration utility:
- AIX, Linux:
unregisterWASProduct.sh
- Windows:
unregisterWASProduct.bat
The utility generates a log file called ConsoleUtility.log
and
storing it in the console/logs
directory. If the
unregistration is successful, a console.pid
will
also be generated.
- Now register the System Console:
- Still working in the same directory on the Sametime System Console,
edit the
console.properties
file and type the new
administrator password at the SSCPassword
setting,
and then save the file.
- Now edit the
productConfig.properties
file
and type the new administrator password at the WASPassword
setting,
and then save the file.
- Run the registration utility with the following command:
- AIX, Linux:
registerProduct.sh
- Windows:
registerProduct.sh
The utility registers the Sametime System Console
and records the updated administrator password into the database,
generating a log file called ConsoleUtility.log
and
storing it in the console/logs
directory. If the
registration is successful, a console.pid
will also
be generated.