How to setup Emergency Access Tokencodes using RSA Authentication Manager Bulk Administration
Originally Published: 2017-05-31
Article Number
Applies To
RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager Bulk Administration (AMBA)
RSA Version/Condition: 1.6.0
Issue
Tasks
- Open an SSH session or correct directly to the Authentication Manager primary instance with the rsaadmin account.
- Navigate to /opt/rsa/am/utils.
- Create a file called AMBAactions.txt.
- Copy and paste the following actions into the AMBAactions.txt file.
Action,TokSerial,SetPin,CreatePin EAFXD,000503095210,1234,D06/30/2017
- Run the action using the following command:
./rsautil AMBulkAdmin -i AMBAActions.txt -o outputlog --verbose -a [superadmin] -P [password] --lic AMBA_license.lic
NOTE: The --lic parameter may not be required where the Authentication Manager license is an Enterprise license and the deployment is using Authentication Manager 8.2 software.
The listing below shows the contents of the output.log:
BOJ : 2017-05-30 13:51:21 - 1.5.0 Build 105 - License expires at midnight on 2035-12-31 - Input = 00979123.txt Info : 2017-05-30 13:51:21 - License Number: 11307-2014 - Issued To: RSA CS APJ - Issued On: 03/23/2014 Info : -Output Log File Opened Info : Line 1 -Header Line Info : -Entering setEmergencyAccessFixed Success: 2017-05-30 13:51:21 : Line 2 - setEmergencyAccessFixed -000503095210, 1234, D06/30/2017 Info : -Leaving setEmergencyAccessFixed. Info : -Closing input file Info : -Closing rejected actions file Info : -Closing unsupported actions file Info : -Log File Closed Info : -Exit code: 0 EOJ : 2017-05-30 13:51:21 - Terminating
- The Security Console confirms the Emergency Access Tokencodes configuration. For example,
Notes
Be sure that you are using the correct version of AMBA with your Authentication Manager software.
| AMBA Version | Authentication Manager Version |
| 1.4 | 7.1 |
| 1.5 | 8.0,8.1 |
| 1.6 | 8.2 |
