EPM Automate - How to Encrypt your password ?

Before running EPM Automate, ensure that you can access your environment from the computer from which you are running EPM Automate.

EPM Automate will display FileNotFoundException: .prefs (Access is denied) error in Windows environments if you do not have write permission in the Windows directory from which you execute EPM Automate. EPM Automate creates a .prefs file, which contains user information, and log files in the current Windows directory.

To resolve this error, ensure that the Windows account of the current user has Read/Write access to the directory from which EPM Automate is run. Additionally, this user must have appropriate access to any other directory from which a file is accessed (for example, while running the uploadFilecommand) or written (for example, while running the downloadFile command).

To run EPM Automate on a Windows client:

1. Click Start, then All Programs, then EPM Automate, and then Launch EPM Automate. The EPM Automate command prompt is displayed.
2. Optional: Navigate to the directory from which you want to perform operations using EPM Automate.
3. Optional: Generate a password encryption file. You use the password encryption file to pass encrypted password to initiate a session.

   epmautomate encrypt P@ssword1 myKey C:/mySecuredir/password.epw

4. Start a session as a Service Administrator. Use a command such as the following:
   • Using an unencrypted password:

     epmautomate login serviceAdmin P@ssword1 
     https://test-cloudpln.pbcs_us1.oraclecloud.com myIdentityDomain

   • Using an encrypted password:

     epmautomate login serviceAdmin C:\mySecuredir\password.epw 
     https://test-cloudpln.pbcs_us1.oraclecloud.com myIdentityDomain

5. Enter commands to execute the tasks you want to complete. See one of the following topics for a description of the commands, their usage, and examples.
   • Planning and Planning Modules Commands
   • Financial Consolidation and Close Commands
   • Tax Reporting Commands
   • Account Reconciliation Commands
   • Profitability and Cost Management Commands
   See Exit Codes for information on command execution status.
6. Sign out of the environment. Use the following command:

   epmautomate logout