If you need to access the content in the Site Recovery Manager Appliance embedded vPostgres database, you must connect to the database through the appliance OS.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the OS of the Site Recovery Manager Appliance as admin.
    You set the password for the admin user account during the deployment of the appliance.
  2. Run /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql –U user -d dbname. Enter a user name, the database name, and when prompted the respective password which you set during the deployment of the Site Recovery Manager Appliance.
    User Description
    admin

    The embedded vPostgres database super user account.

    Note: The admin account uses the same password to access both the appliance OS and the embedded database.
    srmdb The embedded vPostgres database user account. Site Recovery Manager Server uses this account to access the embedded vPostgres database.