Proxy Account Password

Universal Password Policy Settings

If you have Universal Passwords set up for all users in your tree, do the following before installing and configuring any File Reporter OES components:

  1. Before installing the Engine, create a new container in eDirectory to store the proxy objects.

  2. Create a Universal Password Policy using iManager or NetIQ Identity Console.

  3. Make sure that the following settings are met:

    Setting Name

    Value

    Number of days before password can be changed

    0 or Not set

    Number of days before password expires

    0 or Not set

    Use Microsoft complexity policy

    -OR-

    (Use the rest of the settings below)

    True

    Maximum number of characters in password

    Not set

    Minimum number of unique characters

    1 or more

    Maximum number of times a specific character can be used

    Not set

    Maximum number of times a specific character can repeat sequentially

    Not set

    Allow the password to be case-sensitive

    True

    Allow numeric characters

    True

    Allow non-alphanumeric characters

    True

    Allow non-US ASCII characters

    True

  4. Associate the Universal Password Policy with the new container you created in Step 1.

  5. When creating your proxy objects during the installation of the Engine, make sure that you specify the FDN of this container.

Resetting the Proxy Password

Primary Identity System

To reset the password for the eDirectory proxy account for the primary (licensed) eDirectory tree, run the Engine Config utility, which will reprovision the proxy account if necessary, and set the password.

See Configuring the Engine for details.

Additional Identity Systems

To reset the proxy account password for additional eDirectory identity systems, select the associated eDirectory tree in the Identity Systems web application and click Reset Proxy Account Password.

See Identity Systems for details.