Description Sentinel is an application that maintains a central repository of encrypted usernames and passwords. Sentinel provides a service for maintaining usernames and passwords on selected Essbase servers. Thus establishing access uniformity across the Essbase enterprise. Changing a password on Sentinel will cause the password to be updated on all identified Essbase servers. This was formally a manual operation. Provision for group maintenance is included well as the ability to delete users and groups. Add-on to Armored3 As an add-on to Armored3, Sentinel allows for full propagation of Essbase users. Without Sentinel as an add-on, Armored3 has no way of setting a user’s password. For good reasons, passwords are not part of an Essbase "dump" file or accessible in the Essbase API.