Help with automated password update

jjroncag

I created a PowerShell script to update the SolarWinds credential after pulling the new password from our password vault tool.

Following the variable through the script the password looks fine, but once it is applied to SolarWinds the application that uses it starts to fail.

It seems to be how the password is getting passed in the Invoke-SwisVerb call. I am defining the properties as hashtable and then calling the Orion.Credential UpdateCredentials verb to update it.

Thoughts on why this is not updating the password correctly?

Here is my code snippet:

$properties = @{
"Name" = $newName
"Description" = $newDescription
"Username" = $newUsername
"Password" = $newPassword
}

Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.Credential UpdateCredentials @($credentialId, $properties)

planglois

• Are you passing the password in clear text or is it encrypted as SecureString?

To validate that your UpdateCredentials command is taken, you can use this SQL query to check before and after if the value changed:

SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM [dbo].[CredentialProperty]
WHERE CredentialID = 1234

You wont see the exact password, it will be in encrypted form, but I would expect the password value to change after you executed your script.

Also, just found this:

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/discussion/97824/where-are-orion-credential-createcredentials-orion-credential-updatecredentials

As per this article, it appears that you might have to pass the information contained in your Properties variable in XML format.