Veritas Appliance Guide for CyberArk Plugin Configuration

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Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS,Flex Appliance OS

Veritas Flex Appliance Shell CPM

[Updated plugin; version 1.2]

The Veritas Flex Appliance Shell CPM plugin is a CyberArk component. The plugin provides a solution to manage the password of all Flex shell user accounts on a configured Flex Appliance.

The following describes the supported plugin functionality:

  • Change the host admin account password.

  • Verify the host admin account password.

  • Starting with plugin version 1.1, the plugin supports password updates/changes for user accounts with an expired password.

  • Limitations:

    • This plugin only supports the configured host admin accounts on a Flex appliance.

    • This plugin does not support to reconcile the host admin account password.

Requirements and prerequisites

The following describes the requirements and tasks that you must perform before you can configure the plugin:

Configuration

After you have downloaded and installed the plugin, perform the following configuration steps in the application on the CyberArk site.

To configure the plugin for a Flex Appliance host admin account

  1. Log in to the CyberArk PVWA.
  2. On the Account View page, click Add account and do the following:
    • For Select system type, click Imported platforms.

    • For Assign to platform, click Veritas Flex Appliance Shell via SSH.

    • For Store in safe, select where you want to store the configuration. You can also click Create Safe to create a new one.

    • For Define properties, enter the following:

      • Address: Enter the Flex Appliance fully qualified domain name.

      • Username: Enter the Flex Appliance host admin account username.

      • Password: Enter the associated password for the entered Flex Appliance host admin account username.