Enabling vault access
A vault is a tool designed to control access to sensitive credentials. It can also generate access keys dynamically for specific services or applications.
Vault eliminates the hard coded application credentials embedded in applications, configuration files, and allows the sensitive passwords to be centrally stored, logged, and managed within the vault.
PATROL for PostgreSQL Database supports using passwords from the vault. When you want to specify credentials while configuring a monitor policy for PostgreSQL database, you can use the vault to get the credentials.
Before you begin
Enable vault access in PATROL Agent.
For more information, see Enabling vault access.
To enable vault access
Add the following configuration variable to enable vault:
/PGR/PostgreSQL/<ENVIRONMENT_NAME>/isVaultEnabled=1
Global level:
/PGR/PostgreSQL/isVaultEnabled=1
Value | Description |
|---|---|
0 | disable |
1 | enable |
You can enable vault at the global level for all the environments and environment level for specific environment.
If you are using vault to access the password in BMC Helix Operations Management, enter the query string in the Password and Confirm password field.