Using DB2 Authentication

With this technique, each Server is given a login name and password, and is configured to accept the login names and passwords of all other Servers in the deployment. The password for this account typed in clear text is obfuscated in the configuration file on each server, after the restart of the FillDB service. To authenticate your servers using DB2 Authentication, follow these steps:

  1. Choose a single login name (for example, db2inst1), and a single password to be used by all servers in your deployment for inter-server authentication.
  2. On the Master Server, open the /var/opt/BESServer/besserver.config file.
  3. Add or modify the following keywords in the [Software\BigFix\Enterprise Server\FillDB] section: 
    ReplicationUser = <login name>
ReplicationPassword = <password>
ReplicationPort = <DB2_port>
ReplicationDatabase = BFENT
  4. Restart the FillDB service.
Note:
  • This choice must be made on a deployment-wide basis; you cannot mix domain-authenticated servers with DB2-authenticated servers.
  • ReplicationUser, ReplicationPassword, and ReplicationPort must be uniquely defined in all the server configuration files of your DSA environment.
  • All IBM BigFix servers in your deployment must be running the same version of DB2 server.