Secure the Access to the Exalead CloudView Interfaces

This section describes how to change the default admin credentials.

These credentials are used to connect to:

  • The Exalead CloudView configuration interfaces, that is, the Administration Console, the Business Console, the Mashup Builder, and the API Console.
  • The Mashup UI applications created with these Exalead CloudView interfaces.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Use a Different Version of the JVM
Secure Directories
Encrypt Passwords

Change the Admin Password

  1. Go to Administration Console > [user logged in] > Users.
  2. In the Administrator section, edit the Admin password and confirm.
  3. Click Apply.

Change the Admin Login

  1. Go to Administration Console > [user logged in] > Users.
  2. In the Administrator section, edit the Admin login.
  3. Click Apply.
  4. Change the admin login for all Mashup Builder modules:
    1. Go to <DATADIR>/config/360
    2. Edit ModulesPermissions.xml
    3. Enter the new login name in <User id="admin"/>. 

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ModulesPermissions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="">
  <Groups>
    <Group id="admin">
      <User id="admin"/>
   </Group>
  </Groups>
  <Sections>
    <Section id="modules">
      <Section permission="READ" id="dashboard">
        <Group permission="WRITE" id="admin"/>
    </Section>
      <Section permission="NONE" id="applications">
        <Group permission="WRITE" id="admin"/>
    </Section>
      <Section permission="NONE" id="permissions">
        <Group permission="WRITE" id="admin"/>
    </Section>
      <Section permission="WRITE" id="mashupbuilder"/>
    </Section>
  </Sections>
</ModulesPermissions>

  5. Change the admin login in all your Mashup UI applications:
    1. Go to <DATADIR>/config/360/applications/<APPLICATION>/
    2. Edit ApplicationPermissions.xml
    3. Enter the new login name in <User id="admin"/>. 

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ModulesPermissions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="">
  <Groups>
    <Group id="admin">
      <User id="admin"/>
    </Group>
  </Groups>
  <Sections>
    <Section id="modules">
      <Section permission="READ" id="dashboard">
        <Group permission="WRITE" id="admin"/>
    </Section>
      <Section permission="NONE" id="applications">
        <Group permission="WRITE" id="admin"/>
    </Section>
      <Section permission="NONE" id="permissions">
        <Group permission="WRITE" id="admin"/>
    </Section>
      <Section permission="WRITE" id="mashupbuilder"/>
    </Section>
  </Sections>
</ModulesPermissions>

  6. Change the admin login in the Mashup Builder templates, which allow you to create web and mobile Mashup UI applications:
    1. Go to <DATADIR>/config/360/applications/template_web/
    2. Edit ApplicationPermissions.xml
    3. Enter the new login name in <User id="admin"/>.
    4. Make the same changes for /template_mobile 

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ApplicationPermissions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="">
  <Groups>
    <Group id="admin">
      <User id="admin"/>
    </Group>
  </Groups>
  <Sections>
    <Section permission="NONE" id="mashupbuilder">
    <Section permission="READ" id="application_settings">
      <Group permission="WRITE" id="admin"/>
  </Section>
    <Section permission="WRITE" id="widget_builder"/>
    <Section id="*">
      <Section permission="WRITE" id="ui"/>
      <Section permission="WRITE" id="api"/>
    </Section>
    </Section>
  </Sections>
</ApplicationPermissions>

  7. Restart Exalead CloudView.