Chapter 5. Connecting to AMQ Management Console for an Operator-based broker deployment

Procedure

1. In the OpenShift Container Platform web console, click Networking Routes.

   On the Routes page, identify the wconsj Route for the given broker Pod. For example, my-broker-deployment-wconsj-0-svc-rte.

2. Under Location, click the link that corresponds to the Route.

   A new tab opens in your web browser.

3. Click the Management Console link.

   The AMQ Management Console login page opens.

   Note

   Credentials are required to log in to AMQ Management Console only if the requireLogin property of the CR is set to true. This property specifies whether login credentials are required to log in to the broker and AMQ Management Console. By default, the requireLogin property is set to false. If requireLogin is set to false, you can log in to AMQ Management Console without supplying a valid username and password by entering any text when prompted for a username and password.

4. If the requireLogin property is set to true, enter a username and password.

   You can enter the credentials for a preconfigured user that is available for connecting to the broker and AMQ Management Console. You can find these credentials in the adminUser and adminPassword properties if these properties are configured in the Custom Resource (CR) instance. It these properties are not configured in the CR, the Operator automatically generates the credentials. To obtain the automatically generated credentials, see Section 5.2, “Accessing AMQ Management Console login credentials”.

   If you want to log in as any other user, note that a user must belong to a security role specified for the hawtio.role system property to have the permissions required to log in to AMQ Management Console. The default role for the hawtio.role system property is admin, which the preconfigured user belongs to.

Procedure

1. See the complete list of secrets in your OpenShift project.

   1. From the OpenShift Container Platform web console, click Workload Secrets.

   2. From the command line:

      $ oc get secrets

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2. Open the appropriate secret to reveal the Base64-encoded console login credentials.

   1. From the OpenShift Container Platform web console, click the secret that includes your broker Custom Resource instance in its name. Click the YAML tab.

   2. From the command line:

      $ oc edit secret <my-broker-deployment-credentials-secret>

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3. To decode a value in the secret, use a command such as the following:

   $ echo 'dXNlcl9uYW1l' | base64 --decode
   console_admin

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