When you want to view or update instance or component configurations that contain passwords, you can provide a shared secret for Platform Manager to use to create a security context and encrypt the passwords.

You can specify an environment shared secret for any environment, and a global shared secret for an entire Command Central landscape. If an instance or component is in an installation that belongs to a single environment, Command Central uses the shared secret for that environment. If the instance or component is in an installation that does not belong to an environment or that belongs to several environments, Command Central uses the global shared secret.

Command Central is installed with a default global secret, but Software AG strongly recommends that you replace it.