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    Adapt the Password Complexity Policy in Enterprise Alert

    • July 19, 2016
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    Adapt the Password Complexity Policy in Enterprise Alert

    If you are not using Windows authentication, your Enterprise Alert username and password are your key to enter the Enterprise Alert Web portal as well as the mobile app.

    Passwords can be more or less complex and Enterprise Alert allows you to define the required password complexity. This means that by default a password containing at least six characters with one uppercase, one lowercase and one numeric character is required when a new user is created or the password of an existing user is modified.

    If, however, this password policy does not fit your requirements or you need to enable the password policy for your upgraded installation of Enterprise Alert, options are available for customizing or enabling the password policy.

    There are essentially four settings in the “KeyValueCollections” table of the “EnterpriseAlert” database that govern the behavior of the password policy, namely “PWComplexityRuleActivated”, “PWComplexityRuleRegex”, “PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionKeyand” and “PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionTooltipKey”. A description of these settings is provided below:

    Setting
    Description
    PWComplexityRuleActivated
    Whether or not the password policy is active or not.
    Set 1 for active and 0 to disable the functionality.
    PWComplexityRuleRegex
    The regular expression that enforces the password policy
    Please refer to resources in the Internet for more information about regular expressions.
    PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionKey
    The text that is displayed if the entered password does not comply with the regular expression specified forPWComplexityRuleRegex.
    PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionTooltipKey
    The tooltip that is displayed if the user moves their mouse of the “Password Profile” or “Confirm Password Profile” fields on the user details page

    Activating or deactivating the Policy

    In order to enable or disable the password policy, you will need to complete the following steps:
    1. Open SQL Server Management Studio and log onto the SQL Server instance where the Enterprise Alert database “EnterpriseAlert” has been installed.
    2. Select “New Query” and select the “EnterpriseAlert” database.
    3. Execute the following query if you would like to enable the password policy:
      — Enable Password Policy
      UPDATE KeyValueCollection
      SET Value = ‘1’
      WHERE Component = ‘MMEA’ AND [Key] = ‘PWComplexityRuleActivated’
      OR execute the following query to disable the password policy:
      — Disable Password Policy
      UPDATE KeyValueCollection
      SET Value = ‘0’
      WHERE Component = ‘MMEA’ AND [Key] = ‘PWComplexityRuleActivated’
    4. Restart Internet Information Services (IIS) by doing an iisreset in the commant prompt

    Customizing the Complexity Policy

    If you would like to customize the password policy, you can do so by modifying the “PWComplexityRuleRegex”, “PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionKey” and “PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionTooltipKey” settings.

    PWComplexityRuleRegex allows you to change the policy that applies to passwords, while “PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionKey” and “PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionTooltipKey” provide the corresponding text that appears in the Enterprise Alert portal if the user enters in an invalid password.

    The regular expression can for example be changed to ^(?=.*d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).{8,255}$ to ensure that only passwords with a minimum length of eight characters can be entered. To apply this regular expression, execute the following query:

    — Update Regular Expression
    UPDATE KeyValueCollection
    SET Value = ‘^(?=.*d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).{8,255}$’
    WHERE Component = ‘MMEA’ AND [Key] = ‘PWComplexityRuleRegex’
    To modify the text for invalid passwords, execute the following query:
    — Update password policy text
    UPDATE KeyValueCollection
    SET Value = ‘The password strength is too weak. Please provide at least 8 characters, 1 digit, 1 uppercase and 1 lowercase character in the password.’
    WHERE Component = ‘MMEA’ AND ([Key] = ‘PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionKey’ OR [Key] =’PWComplexityRuleUserDescriptionTooltipKey’)

    Once you completed your changes, restart IIS (iisreset) for the changes to take effect.

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