IBM Disabling WebSphere administrative security when admin console is not accessible - United States  TECHNOTE (TROUBLESHOOTING)

PROBLEM(ABSTRACT)
 WebSphere administrative secuirty needs to be disabled and the admin console is not accessible. 

CAUSE
This can be caused by several reasons eg... server will not start with security enabled, forgot administrative password, etc...

RESOLVING THE PROBLEM
WARNING: Please use this as the last resort and make sure the server is not in the middle of processing any transactions. 

To disable security, please perform the following steps via wsadmin:


 1. <WAS_INSTALL_DIR>/bin/>wsadmin -conntype NONE 
 2. wsadmin>securityoff 
 3. wsadmin>exit 
 4. Restart the servers. 
 5. Enable the security from administrative console. 
 6. Once the needed corrections are made, you can re-enable security in the admin console and then restart WebSphere.


NOTE: To restart the servers, you will first need to manually kill the java process since security is still enabled in the currently running process. 


Cross reference information Segment Product Component Platform Version Edition Application Servers WebSphere Application Server System Management/Repository
Cannot Start JazzSM Dash after ObjectServer as a User Repository 

Unable to see the User roles and Groups in WebSphere Admin Console. Added Repositories in the WebSphere Admin Console. It was added under Security.

Console Settings > Websphere Administrative Console > Security > Global Security > Federated Repositories

Added Object Server Repository

Server was stopped. Tried to restart but unable to start the JazzSM Dash server

Why would the server not restart?

This can be caused by several reasons eg... server will not start with security enabled, forgot administrative password, etc...