How to: Manually generate new credentials for your Cloud Connector

Last modified: Monday August 09, 2021.

Your Alta Cloud Connectors™ rarely need to be accessed directly, as they are configured and managed from your Alta Aware® deployment. However, you can access the local user interface for your Cloud Connectors using the credentials generated by your Aware Cloud instance.

For additional security, the Alta Cloud Connector credentials include a password that is automatically rotated hourly.

You can also manually trigger a password rotation. Using a rotating password ensures that access to your Alta Cloud Connector user interfaces is restricted to only those people that have valid logins to your Alta Aware deployment and that have access privileges for the System page.

Task — Generate new credentials for your Cloud Connector manually

  1. Log in to your Alta Aware deployment as an Administrator.
  2. Click New tool from the tool ribbon, then select Servers tool buttonSystem.

    If the System tab is already open, click the tab to view the page.

  3. Select the Cloud Connector to update.
  4. Click Edit settings from the Details pane.
  5. To view the current credentials, click View credentials from the Cloud Connector | Details page.
  6. Click Generate new credentials. The password for the selected Cloud Connector is updated.