How to unlock if SDM user id got locked in SAP ?

This article answers the following queries :

• How to unlock if SDM user id got locked in SAP ?
• SDM deployments fail due to SDM account lock. How to unlock?
• SDM account got locked after 3 successful attempts. How to unlock?

Sometimes, you encounter a situations like

i)    SDM deployments fail and upon investigation you found that SDM account got locked. You can only deploy again after unlocking the SDM account.

ii)   User tried to login to SDM account with wrong password three t imes and account got locked.

Proceed as follows to unlock the SDM account :

If your operating system is windows, please proceed as follows :

i)       Open the command prompt

ii)      Login as sidadm

iii)    Navigate to the following path :

            <Drive>:\usr\sap\<SID>\JC<nn>\SDM\program

iv)    At this path  provide the following commands:

                sdm jstartup “mode=standalone”

                sdm changepassword “newpassword=Enterthenewpassword”

                sdm jstartup “mode=integrated”

                startserver.bat

If your operating system  is Unix, proceed as follows :

i)                   Open a telnet window

ii)                 Login as sidadm user

iii)               Navigate to the /usr/sap/<SID>/JC<nn>/SDM/program

iv)               At this path provide the following commands :

./sdm.sh jstartup “mode=standalone”

./sdm.sh changepassword “newpassword=Enterthenewpassword”

./sdm.sh jstartup “mode=integrated”

./startserver.sh

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