VCF Operations Admin Account

There are two "admin" accounts in VCF Operations, one for the application itself and another in the OS. The application admin account is the one you use to administer VCF Operations itself, this is the one you can log into the UI as well as the admin UI with. To reset the application admin password you can do it two different ways:

• via the admin UI located at https://your_ops_fqdn/admin, then Administrator Settings - Change Administrator Password. When changing the admin password here it will propagate that password to the OS admin account.

  

• via script $VMWARE_PYTHON_BIN $VCOPS_BASE/../vmware-vcopssuite/utilities/sliceConfiguration/bin/vcopsSetAdminPassword.py --reset on the VCF Operations Primary Node.

It's important to note if you change the OS admin password by running a "passwd admin" as root from the command line, it won't necessarily change the application admin account, results will vary. In the end, there is really no reason to SSH into the VCF Operations Primary Node as admin anyway.

Should you have any issues with the VCF Operations admin account see this KB.