Appendix: Default Password Policy Settings for Intelligent Network Visibility for VMware Cloud Foundation

The appendix aggregates the default password policy settings for the VMware Aria Operations for Networks platform and collector nodes. You can use this password policy settings list for reference when you perform password management.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Table 1. Default Password Expiration Policy for VMware Aria Operations for Networks

User	Setting	Default	Description
support	maxdays	99999	Maximum number of days between password change. (By default, the password is set to never expire.)
	mindays	0	Minimum number of days between password change.
	warndays	7	Number of days of warning before a password expires.
consoleuser	maxdays	99999	Maximum number of days between password change (By default, the password is set to never expire.)
	mindays	0	Minimum number of days between password change.
	warndays	7	Number of days of warning before a password expires.

Table 2. Default Password Complexity Policy for VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Setting	Default	Description
dcredit	-1	Minimum number of numerical characters required.
ucredit	-1	Minimum number of uppercase characters required.
lcredit	-1	Minimum number of lowercase characters required.
ocredit	-1	Minimum number of special characters required.
minlen	14	Minimum total number of characters required.
difok	3	Minimum number of unique characters different from the previous password.
retry	3	Maximum number of retries allowed.
remember	5	Maximum number of previous passwords remembered.

Table 3. Default Account Lockout Policy for VMware Aria Operations for Networks Support and Consoleuser Accounts.

Setting	Default	Description
deny	Not Defined	Maximum number of authentication failures before the account is locked.
unlock_time	Not Defined	Amount of time in seconds that the account remains locked.