Where/How is the password encrypted/stored for the DataPower plugin?

Question

Question by Eddy G. · Jun 02, 2015 at 04:32 AM · plugins

Where/How is the password encrypted/stored for the DataPower plugin?

Hi,

I have a customer that is very sensitive about how dynaTrace stores the passwords for the plugins, in particular for the DataPower plugin.

Does anyone know?

Regards,

Eddy

0

10 |2000000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded

Attachments: Up to 10 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 50.0 MiB each and 250.0 MiB total.

Answer 1 · 2015-06-04T03:43:03Z

Answer by Eddy G. · Jun 04, 2015 at 03:43 AM

Thank you guys!

0 · Share

10 |2000000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded

Attachments: Up to 10 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 50.0 MiB each and 250.0 MiB total.

Answer 2 · 2015-06-03T23:50:48Z

Answer by Rick B. · Jun 03, 2015 at 11:50 PM

Dynatrace keeps it as an encrypted key in the System Profile xml where you've configured the instance of the monitor.

0 Show 3 · Share

10 |2000000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded

Attachments: Up to 10 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 50.0 MiB each and 250.0 MiB total.

Eugene T. · Jun 04, 2015 at 03:58 AM 0

Share

Hi Rick,

The Data Power plugin has its own user/password pair that is used to communicate with the Data Power appliance. Reference to an encrypted key in the System Profile is not applicable to the Data Power plugin.

Eugene.

Rick B. Eugene T. · Jun 04, 2015 at 04:23 AM 0

Share

Eugene T. Rick B. · Jun 04, 2015 at 04:31 AM 0

Share

Hi Rick,

Sorry my bad. I misunderstood your post.

Eugene.

Answer 3 · 2015-06-03T23:40:07Z

Answer by Harshal P. · Jun 03, 2015 at 11:40 PM

Tagging the creator of the plugin eugene.turetsky@dynatrace.com for this question.

0 Show 1 · Share

10 |2000000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded

Attachments: Up to 10 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 50.0 MiB each and 250.0 MiB total.

Eugene T. · Jun 04, 2015 at 12:19 AM 0

Share

Hi Eddy and Harshal,

First, I'm not a creator of the Data Power plugin. I am just supporting it.

In terms of the question about the password: it is kept in the Dynatrace Collector Java heap for lifetime of the plugin. There is no access to the userid/password outside of the DP plugin process. It is encrypted with base64 encoding and sent over the network using SSL protocol.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Eugene.

Where/How is the password encrypted/stored for the DataPower plugin?

3 Replies

How to get started

NAM 2019 SP5 is available

LIVE WEBINAR

Follow this Question

Related Questions

Forum Tags