Resetting MC to Pre-Configured State

If you decide to reset MC to its original, preconfigured state, you can do so on the Diagnostics page by clicking Factory Reset.

A factory reset removes all metadata (about a week's worth of database monitoring/configuration information and MC users) from storage and forces you to reconfigure MC again, as described in Configuring MC in Installing Vertica.

After you click Factory Reset, you have the chance to export audit records to a file by clicking Yes. If you click No (do not export audit records), the process begins. There is no undo.

Keep the following in mind concerning user accounts and the MC.

• When you first configure MC, during the configuration process you create an MC superuser (a Linux account). Issuing a Factory Reset on the MC does not create a new MC superuser, nor does it delete the existing MC superuser.  When initializing after a Factory Reset, you must logon using the original MC superuser account.

• Note that, once MC is configured, you can add users that are specific to MC. Users created through the MC interface are MC specific. When you subsequently change a password through the MC, you only change the password for the specific MC user. Passwords external to MC (i.e., system Linux users and Vertica database passwords) remain unchanged.

  For information on MC users, refer to the sections, Creating an MC User and MC configuration privileges.