Changing the DBA password using the NetBackup Database Administration utility
To log into the Database Administration utility, you must know the current DBA password.
To change the password for the first time after installation, use the nbdb_admin command. The command updates the vxdbms.conf file with the new, encrypted string:
See Changing the NetBackup database password.
To change a known password to a new password, you can either use the nbdb_admin command or the NetBackup Database Administration utility.
To change the DBA password from a known password to a new password
- Start the NetBackup Database Administration utility that is located in the following directory:
install_path\NetBackup\bin\NbDbAdmin.exe
- Enter the database logon password and click OK.
See Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows.
- Select the Tools tab.
- In the Password section, click Change.
- In the Change password dialog box, enter the new password and confirm the new password. Changing the password changes it for both NBDB and BMRDB, if a BMR database is present.
- Enable Create a backup file of your new DBA password to keep track of the password. Then, browse to a directory to store the file that contains the new password.
- Click OK.
The Change password dialog box warns you that it is important to remember the password. There is no mechanism to recover information within the EMM database if the password is unavailable.
- Restart the database for the password change to take effect.