Context
The default lmadmin username and password are both set to 'admin'.
If the administrator password has been changed and you no longer remember it, you can reset it by following the steps below.
Process
1. Stop the lmadmin Instance
- Open the Thermo Scientific License Manager for Server, navigate to Server Configuration tab and click on Stop to stop Flexnet lmadmin service
- If you do not use Thermo Scientific License Manager for Server, use the Task Manager or any equivalent method to stop the running lmadmin service.
2. Edit the server.xml File
- Locate the server.xml file in the conf folder of the lmadmin installation directory or in: %PROGRAMDATA%\FLEXlm\lmadmin\conf.
- Update the section highlighted in red:
- Original:
<accessControl sessionTimeout="1800">
<user firstName="System" id="admin" lastName="Administrator" password="(ENC-01)OQqWH+/Edhi8WNqqtsgoOK6NW5C6fS0bjhROPwDEnIxYNzLH" passwordExpired="false" privileges="admin" type="local-admin"/>
<user firstName="Alerter" id="alerter" lastName="Service" password="(ENC-01)eZi+Ce9/mvN2n8gOAL9kMbC7QtDYFHLAkAoZybwqhm2c74CE" passwordExpired="false" privileges="admin.alerter" type="local-alerter"/>
</accessControl> - Replace with:
- Original:
<user firstName="System" id="admin" lastName="Administrator" password="newAdminPass" passwordExpired="true" privileges="admin" type="local-admin"/>
3. Restart lmadmin and Log In
- Restart the lmadmin service.
- Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8090/vendor.
- Log in using 'admin' as the username and 'newAdminPass' as the password.
- Upon logging in, you will be prompted to create a new password. The new password will then be encrypted automatically in the server.xml file.
Note
If the username was previously changed from 'admin' to another value, be sure to use the correct username when logging in (the username appears in blue in the XML file above ).