Encrypted datapools overview

 

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You can encrypt one or more columns in a datapool. Encrypt confidential information such as a set of passwords or account numbers that are used during a test.

Datapool columns are encrypted using the RC4 private-key algorithm. You can use only one password to encrypt columns in any given datapool.

Encrypted datapools are not supported on agent computers that are running the z/OS or AIX operating systems.

If you forget the password to a datapool, there is no way to recover the password.

When you run a test that uses a datapool containing encrypted variables, you are prompted for the datapool password. If the test uses multiple encrypted datapools, enter the password for each encrypted datapool that the test uses.

When you run a test that uses a datapool with an encrypted column, the value of the column is decrypted at run time. The column value is sent as a cleartext string in the requests to the server. The actual values of the encrypted datapool variables are not displayed in the test log. The test log displays asterisks for the encrypted datapool variables.

To see the actual values of variables sent to the server at run time, use custom code. Send the datapool column value to custom code that writes the value to a file other than the test log.

If the custom code writes to the test log using...

...then asterisks are displayed instead of the decrypted variables.


See

  1. Encrypt datapools
  2. Remove encryption from datapools
  3. Change passwords on encrypted datapools
  4. Importing to encrypted datapools
  5. Exporting from encrypted datapools


Related

  • Datapool overview
  • How datapool options affect values that a virtual user retrieves
  • Create a datapool associated with a test
  • Create a datapool in the workspace
  • Importing a CSV file into a datapool
  • Enable a test to use a datapool
  • Associating a test value with a datapool column
  • Viewing datapool candidates when you open a test
  • Editing a datapool
  • Using a digital certificate store with a datapool
  • Navigate between a datapool and a test