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 Sybase supports using passwords from the vault. When you want to specify credentials while configuring a monitor policy for Sybase, you can use the vault to get the credentials.
To enable vault access
You can enable vault at the global level for all the environments and environment level for a specific environment.
Following are the examples of global and environment level configuration variables for which you can enable vault. Add one of the following configuration variables as per your requirement to enable vault.
Configuration level | Example | Description |
Global level | /SYBASE/isVaultEnabled = 1 | This is applicable to all the Sybase monitoring environments configured in a monitoring policy. |
Environment level | /SYBASE/<ENV_NAME>/isVaultEnabled = 1 | This is applicable to a specific environment configured in a monitoring policy. |
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.
To add a configuration variable
- Click Configuration and select Monitor Policies.
- Locate the policy and click Edit.
- Click the Configuration Variables tab and then click Add Configuration Variable.
- On the Add Configuration Variable page, in the Variable field, enter the variable path and name.
- From the Operation list, select REPLACE.
You create a new variable by using the REPLACE operation. - In the Value field, enter the value of the variable.
If you do not enter a value, default value of the variable is used.