Remediate Passwords

When an error occurs, for example after a password expires, you must manually reset the password in the component product. After you reset the password in a component, you must remediate the password in SDDC Manager to update the password in the SDDC Manager database and the dependent VMware Cloud Foundation workflows.

Verify that

system contain no failed workflows. To check for failed workflows, click

Dashboard

in the navigation pane and expand the

Tasks

pane at the bottom of the page.

Verify that no workflows are running or are scheduled to run while you remediate the password.

Only a user with the ADMIN role can perform this task. For more information about roles, see Managing Users and Groups in VMware Cloud Foundation .

To resolve any errors that might have occurred during password rotation or update, you must use password remediation. Password remediation syncs the password of the account stored in the SDDC Manager with the updated password in the component.

You can remediate the password for only one account at a time.

Although the individual

components support different password requirements, you must set passwords following a common set of requirements across all components.

For information on updating passwords manually, see Manually Update Passwords .

From the navigation pane, select

Security

Password Management

Click the tab for the component that includes the account for which you want to remediate a password.

For example,

ESXI

Select the account whose password you want to remediate, click the vertical ellipsis (three dots), and click

Remediate

The Remediate Password dialog box appears. This dialog box displays the entity name, account type, credential type, and user name, in case you must confirm you have selected the correct account.

Enter and confirm the password that was set manually on the component.

Click

Remediate

A message appears at the top of the page showing the progress of the operation. The Task panel also shows detailed status of the password remediation operation. To view subtasks, you can click the task name.

Password remediation is complete when all sub-tasks are completed successfully.