With SDDC Manager, you can initiate a password rotation for both the root and the admin accounts for VMware Aria Operations.
When you perform manual password rotation, you automatically re-establish known integration points across the VMware Cloud Foundation instance.
Procedure
- VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 or later
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- Log in to SDDC Manager at https://<sddc_manager_fqdn> with a user assigned the Admin role.
In the left pane, click
.- On the Password management page, from the components list, select Operations.
- In the table, under Rotate password, select the box for each root account whose password you want to rotate.
- Click Rotate password.
- In the Rotate password dialog box, click Rotate.
- Repeat the procedure for the admin account.
- VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 or eariler
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- Log in to SDDC Manager at https://<sddc_manager_fqdn> with a user assigned the Admin role.
- In the left pane, click .
- On the Password management page, click the VROPS tab.
- In the table, under Rotate all, select the check box for each root account whose password you want to rotate.
- Click Rotate now.
- In the Rotate password dialog box, click Rotate.
- Repeat the procedure for the admin account.