Get your Octopus Server working again after losing your Master Key.
Before using this command, we recommend taking a look at our guide on recovering after losing your master key.
lost-master-key options
Usage: octopus.server lost-master-key [<options>]
Where [<options>] is any of:
--instance=VALUE Name of the instance to use
--config=VALUE Configuration file to use
--iReallyWantToResetAllMySensitiveData
Confirm you really want to generate a new Master
Key and reset all your sensitive data.
--iHaveBackedUpMyDatabase
Confirm you have taken a backup of your database
in its current state. If something goes wrong at
least you can start again from that point in
time.
--upgradeDatabase Confirm you are willing to let Octopus upgrade
the schema of your database so it can safely
load and save data in the expected format.
--skipCurrentMasterKeyTest
By default this command will test whether the
existing Master Key can decrypt the Octopus
Server X.509 certificate. Use this switch if you
are certain you want to ignore the results of
this test.
--scrubPii Use this switch to scrub all personally
identifiable information from the database.
--skipLicenseCheck Skips the license check when performing a schema
upgrade
Or one of the common options:
--help Show detailed help for this commandBasic example
This example will re-create the master key for the instance named OctopusServer.
Please note: The command below will replace the existing Master Key with a newly generated Master Key, and reset all sensitive data in the Octopus instance - be sure you have taken a database backup before running this.
octopus.server lost-master-key --instance="OctopusServer" --iReallyWantToResetAllMySensitiveData --iHaveBackedUpMyDatabaseHelp us continuously improve
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Page updated on Sunday, January 1, 2023