Changing administrator password on Commandview EVA server

[jknightcs1]

Hi everyone,

I'm about to change the administrator password on our commandview EVA server, but I was wondering if this would affect anything else besides logging into EVA. Would this affect anything on our EVA SANs?

I only ask because I once renamed the machine, and we were unable to log into commandview until I named it back.

[Uwe Zessin]

What version of Command View EVA (CV) are you using and do you have additional software like WEBES or HPCC installed (or somebody did install them for you)?

In CV before version 6, the account management was 'a bit' integrated into the ProLiant System Management Homepage - you can recognize this if CV uses port 2381.

Starting with CV version 6, it uses a different port and fully authenticates against the Windows SAM. Access to CV is controlled by (Windows) group membership to "HP Storage Users/Admins".

If WEBES/HPCC or other code like SSSU scripts use the default "Administrator" user, access will break when you change its password.
To prevent this, I've started to suggest my customers to use a different username / password combination for this 'service stuff' - it need not even be a privileged Windows user.

[jknightcs1]

We're on version 7. HP installed this for us a few months ago, and we do have HPCC installed, but we haven't really used it yet. I'm not even quite sure what it's used for. We aren't using any SSSU scripts yet, but we'd like to start soon, which is why I wanted to change this password first.

[jknightcs1]

Just to confirm, as long as have no scripts running, this hsould be ok? What exactly is hpcc used for anyway?

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

CC is short for "Configuration Collector" - it extracts configuration data, e.g. from the EVA and stores it in an XML file.

I have created a modular script environment - the "login" to the management server is done in a single file which is called using SSSU's "FILE" command from other scripts. If the username/password has been changed, I just have to update this single file.

[jknightcs1]

Thanks!