- #SYMANTEC ENDPOINT MANAGER RESTART SERVICES HOW TO#
- #SYMANTEC ENDPOINT MANAGER RESTART SERVICES PASSWORD#
Today was all about Symantec Endpoint Protection, better known by their tech support rock starts as SEP! We are migrating our network to new servers, therefore I needed to move the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (you guessed it, SEPM!) to a new server. start again the ‘Symantec Endpoint Protection manager’ service.Ĥ.Launch Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Console open Windows Services, then stop ‘Symantec Endpoint Protection manager’Ĭ:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\Toolsģ.
#SYMANTEC ENDPOINT MANAGER RESTART SERVICES PASSWORD#
You can use ‘resetpass.bat’ file, it will reset the password for the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager admin account.ġ. After it comes up you should be able to open this log file.Īnother beautiful hack for locating that lost password is:ġ) Go to ODBC, enter the user name and password…etc.Ģ) In the database server name, enter the server name as …etc.ĥ) Open the php.ini file and search for “off”, make this to be “on”, for all the errorlog and give the path for error_log = syslog to say c:\dump\password.txt but not the root of any drive like c:\password.txt as this will not generate a log, I don’t know why, might be a bug within php.Ĩ) Don’t forget to change php.ini attribute back to read only once you are finished editing. So disable all the Symantec Endpoint Security related services and reboot the server. Not an easy task because one of the Symantec services does not give you the ability to stop it. In order to open this log file, you will need to:ġ) Stop all services using it.
If you forgot the original password, you can find it stored in the sem5.log file in the %installationdirectory%\db.
#SYMANTEC ENDPOINT MANAGER RESTART SERVICES HOW TO#
*Edited : Dont forget to make php.ini back to read only once done with the editing.Īlso, a good article on how to change the database password to a non complex password for use with the Management Server Reconfiguration Wizard To determine what your original password was follow this hack:ġ) Go to ODBC, enter the user name and password as blah blah.Ģ) In the database server name, enter the server name as blah.ģ) Goto %programfiles%\symantec\symantec endpoint protection manager\phpĤ) Change the attributes for php.ini to remove the read only.ĥ) Open the php.ini file and search for “off”, make this to be “on”, for all the errorlog and give the path for error_log = syslog to say c:\test\test.txt but not the root of any drive like c:\test.txt as this will not generate a log, I dont know but this could be a bug with php.Ħ) Login to SEPM and you should get, “unable to communicate with reporting component”ħ) The log file generated will have your username as DBA and the good working password set in originally. Sem5.log file in the %installationdirectory%\db
How to find or reset the Symantec password on the embedded database