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azdata bdc rotate

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Applies to: Azure Data CLI (azdata)

This command rotates the passwords of autogenerated AD accounts in a big data cluster. For more information, see AD password rotation overview. You can add this command to your automation scripts or pipelines as part of the security hardening process.

This feature for rotation of passwords for autogenerated AD objects was introduced with SQL Server Big Data Clusters CU13.

Important

The azdata bdc rotate command rotates passwords for autogenerated AD objects only. The azdata bdc rotate command does not rotate the password for the AD for big data cluster domain service account (DSA) created manually while performing a big data cluster AD-integrated deployment. For more information, see big data cluster AD integrated deployment.

The following article provides reference for the sql commands in the azdata tool. For more information about other azdata commands, see azdata reference.

azdata bdc rotate

azdata bdc rotate [--name -n]

Mandatory parameters

--name -n

The name of your big data cluster.

Examples

   azdata bdc rotate -n mybdcclustername

Next steps

For more information about other azdata commands, see azdata reference.

For more information about how to install the azdata tool, see Install azdata.