Change password via URL

You can change a dashboard user's password outside of a dashboard.

Procedure

  1. Enter the URL http://<WAS_base>/<context>/performancedashboard/ChangePassword.do in your browser.

    The familiar Performance Dashboard login page is displayed.

  2. Log in with your user name and password.

    After successful authentication you can change the password of the user logged in.

  3. Enter the existing and the new password in the corresponding input boxes.
  4. Save your changes.

Your password changes are transferred to the system.

You cannot change the password for the user (string user) specified in the ppm connection (name attribute of the connection XML element) for the file _default_conf.xml. The file is located under <installation directory>\ppmmashzone\server\bin\work\data_ppm\webapp\WEB-INF\base-config\<client>.

The user logged in requires the PPM function privilege Password change.

Make sure that you do not change the password of a user being used in the _conf files of a dashboard.

Customizing pages

The pages changePassword.jsp and changePasswordInfo.jsp to change a password outside of a dashboard are located in the directory <installation directory>\ppmmashzone\server\bin\agentLocalRepo\.unpacked\ppm-web-run-prod-<version>-runnable.zip\ppm\PerformanceDashboard\webapp\WEB-INF\jsp.

The page changePassword.jsp contains the input screen. By default, the user interface texts for this page are in English. You can customize the interface texts easily by editing this file.

The page changePasswordInfo.jsp contains the status message of the procedure. The server outputs the localized status message.

The pages changePassword.jsp and changePasswordInfo.jsp have a very simple structure to encourage project-specific customization.

Warning

Do not change the names of the pages changePassword.jsp and changePasswordInfo.jsp. Ensure that these names are spelled correctly.