Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) Support Tip of the Week #6

by doug on March 5, 2009

in Best Practices, BSM, Business Service Management, IBM, Implementation, TBSM, Tivoli, Usability

I’ve seen far too many instances of folks saying they don’t know how to change this password or that password. Let’s start with how to change the Netcool/OMNIbus password. By default, it’s root and no password at installation time.

Here’s where the manual describes this process!

Changing the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus password

You can change the password for the ObjectServer used by IBM® Tivoli® Business Service Manager.

1. Stop the TBSM Data server.
2. To generate an encrypted value for the password, from the command prompt, type the following command and press Enter:

$TBSM_HOME/bin/rad_crypt password

where password is the password that TBSM uses to connect to OMNIbus.

3. Copy the output of the rad_crypt command.
4. Using a text editor, open the RAD_ObjectServer_DS.ds file. This file is in the $TBSM_DATA_SERVER_HOME/etc/rad directory. Before you edit the RAD_ObjectServer_DS.ds file, make a backup copy of the file.
5. Paste the encrypted password as the value for the ObjectServer_DS.ObjectServer.DBPASSWORD property.
6. Save the modified file.
7. Open the RAD_OutputObjectServer_DS.ds file. This file is in the $TBSM_DATA_SERVER_HOME/etc/rad directory.
8. Paste the encrypted password as the value for the OutputObjectServer_DS.ObjectServer.DBPASSWORD property.
9. Save the modified file.
10. Restart the TBSM Data server.

Any questions?