Cb Response: cb-datagrid not starting (Fatal: password authentication failed for user "cb")

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Environment

• Carbon Black Response
• 6.0+

Symptoms

• When starting the cluster cb-datagrid is not starting successfully
• The following error message is seen in /var/log/cb/datagrid/startup.out
  

  2017-12-07 12:18:41,548 - [WARN] - from com.carbonblack.datagrid.persist.DbPool in main
  Error testing SQL connection: java.sql.SQLException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (FATAL: password authentication failed for user "cb")

Cause

Password for the user cb for one or more of the Minion nodes does not match the Master

Resolution

1. Stop the services
   

   /usr/share/cb/cbcluster stop

2. On the Minion nodes, open /etc/cb/cb.conf
3. Find the config: "DatabaseURL"
   

   DatabaseURL=postgresql+psycopg2://cb:DMHht76Y9P4PRGpj@192.168.01.111:5002/cb

   Note:DMHht76Y9P4PRGpj is the password in this example

4. Confirm this line matches what is in the Master cb.conf
5. Restart the services to confirm resolution
   

   /usr/share/cb/cbcluster start

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