Encrypting Password in vyoptacollector.xml file on Data Collector

Introduction

HP WXP Collaboration application supports encrypting plain-text password on the WXP Collaboration Data Collector.  This helps improve security by preventing credentials from being stored in readable text.

This article provides guidance to encrypt a plain-text password stored in the vyoptacollector.xml file.

Encrypting the Password

1. Browse to the installation directory of the WXP Collaboration data collector, and open the vyoptacollector.xml file. Locate the password value currently stored in plain text.

2. Copy the plain-text password.

   

3. Open a command prompt on the Data Collector machine .

4. Run the following command: vyoptacollector.exe -encrypt <yourpassword>

5. The encrypted password is generated by the command.

6. Replace the plain-text password in the vyoptacollector.xml file with the encrypted value.

   

7. Save the file.

After updating the configuration file, the password is stored in encrypted form using AES 128 encryption.

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