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Additional Considerations

Encrypt the Database Password

Important: Encryption is only supported for Tomcat application servers.

Volt MX Foundry provides a 256-bit AES/GCM/NoPadding encryption utility, which can be used to encrypt your database password. To encrypt your database password, follow these steps:

  1. After you download and extract the installation zip file, navigate to the lib folder.

  2. From the lib folder, open a terminal (console), and then execute the following command:

    java -jar EncryptionUtility.jar

  3. In the Enter Password to be Encrypted field, type the password that is used to access your database.

  4. In the Enter Key to be Encrypted field, type the key that must be used to encrypt the password.

The console then displays the Encrypted Password and Encrypted Key. These values must be added to the DB_PASS and DB_PASS_SECRET_KEY parameters in the config.properties file. For more information, refer to Database Details.