Changing the Unity Admin Password Used by Viewpoint - Teradata Unity

Teradata Unity User Guide

Product
Teradata Unity
Release Number
16.00
Published
March 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-03-29
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Product Category
Analytical Ecosystem

Follow these steps to change the Unity Admin password for the vpadmin user which is used by Viewpoint portlets to retrieve information from Unity.

  1. From UnityAdmin, update the password of the vpadmin user: ADMIN CHANGE PASSWORD vpadmin <newpassword>;
  2. On each Viewpoint server, update the Unity admin passwords as a Viewpoint user using the udcommons.jar file: /opt/teradata/jvm64/jre7/jre/bin/java -cp /opt/teradata/unityui/scripts/ud-commons.jar com.teradata.unity.security.PasswordManager UNITYADMIN_PASSWORD <newunityadminpassword>