1.5
Table Of Contents
- Installing Application Manager
- Contents
- Installing and Configuring Application Manager
- Introduction to Application Manager
- Security Considerations and System Requirements for Application Manager
- Preparing to Install Application Manager
- Installing Application Manager
- Configuring Application Manager with the Operator Setup Wizard
- Making Additional Application Manager Configurations
- Troubleshooting Application Manager
- Index
c At the respective prompts, provide the IP address, root username, and root password of the
Application Manager instance from which the master keystore is to be copied.
d Exit the Database Connection Configuration page.
What to do next
Log in to Application Manager as an operator to manage Application Manager clusters. Also, you can generate
a new master key for an Application Manager cluster at any time. See “Configure an External Database
Connection,” on page 41
Generate a New Master Key for an Application Manager Cluster
You can generate a new master key from any Application Manager instance in a cluster. However, you must
update every Application Manager instance in the cluster with the new key.
To further protect the encrypted data in the external database, you might want to periodically generate a new
master key for your Application Manager cluster. When you generate a master key in an Application Manager
instance, you must then copy the newly generated key to each of the remaining Application Manager instances
that use the same database. You copy the key by accessing an Application Manager instance and fetching the
master keystore from the Application Manager instance you used to generate the new key.
CAUTION After you generate a new master key, the other Application Manager instances that use the same
database stop functioning until you copy over the newly generated master key.
Prerequisites
Create an Application Manager cluster.
Procedure
1 Access the Application Manager virtual appliance interface of one of the Application Manager instances
in your Application Manager cluster.
2 Select Configure and press Enter.
3 If necessary, access the next page of options, at the prompt, type the number to Database Key
Management, and press Enter.
4 At the prompt, type the number to Generate New Master Key and press Enter.
5 At the prompt, type y to proceed with the key generation.
The new key is generated.
6 For each remaining Application Manager instance that uses the same database, fetch the master keystore
from the Application Manager instance you just used to generate the new key.
a Access the Application Manager virtual appliance interface of an Application Manager instance that
you have not yet updated with the newly generated master key.
b Select Configure and press Enter.
c Return to the Database Connection Configuration page.
d At the prompt, type the number for the Fetch Master Keystore option and press Enter.
e At the respective prompts, provide the IP address, username, and password of the Application
Manager instance from which the master keystore is to be copied.
Once you have updated the master key of each Application Manager instance that shares the same database,
all the instances can access the shared database.
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