Perform DRS restore on CUCM 8.6 when the old security password is not known

[Calin Lupas]

This is the message I receive:

"Security password is different from the one used for backup or the Encrypted password has been tampered with. Restore will halt."

I don't know the old security password of the DRS backup and I'd like restore the backup on a newly installed publisher. For your information, all the info of the new publisher matches the old publisher. I went thru this exercise successfully with another publisher but in that case I knew the password.

Is there a way to decrypt the password as the encrypted key is shown as plain text in the XML file?

Thank you,

Calin Lupas

[Jaime Valencia]

AFAIK there is no way to decrypt it.

[Deepak Rawat]

The best way to move forward on this would be to reset the security password on the publisher server take the DRS backup again and then perform the restore on the other server.

Regards

Deepak

[Calin Lupas]

It involves a tremendous amount of time and resources to change the security password for this high-availability cluster.

[Jitender Bhandari · Accepted solution]

Hi Calin,

You might wanna refer to below it would work for CUCM 8.x 

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/voip/188157

Disclaimer: above is not a CISCO utility so beware of consequences before using it.

JB

[Calin Lupas]

Thanks! I also found this utility posted by Pete. I wonder if I can come up with another solution.