Creating and Managing Static Secret Templates

You can create static secret templates so that the secrets can be created based on these templates. Secrets Manager comes with a few predefined secret templates, for example, GenericWebApp, OracleDB etc..

Adding a secret template

1. Login to Britive.
2. Click on Admin->Secrets Manager->Static Secret Templates. A list of all secret templates is displayed.
3. Click the Add Secret Template button to create a new secret template.
4. Enter the following on the Add Secret Template page:
   1. Enter the Secret Template Name.
   2. Enter Description (Optional).
   3. Enter Secret Rotation Interval (Days). This is required only if the secret template has a password type field. A password needs to be rotated within the user-defined number of days. The maximum allowed value is up to the value configured in Britive vault details. For more information, see Creating a Britive Vault.
   4. Select the Password Policy. This is required only if the secret template has a password type field. If you do not want to use a password field, select None from the drop-down list.
   5. Click Add Field to add a new field to a template:
      1. Enter Field Name.
      2. Enter Description (Optional).
      3. Select the Field Type:
         • Single Line (250 characters) or Multi Line (5000 characters)
         • Password (it is a mandatory field and is masked on screen)
         • File (400 kb) 
         • OTP Seed: This is used to generate OTP for MFA authentication. Every secret template can have only one OTP Seed. For more information, see OTP Generation. File and OTP Seed is mutually exclusive. You can select only one of them.
         • Recovery Keys: Recovery keys are only visible to administrators when they are part of a secret. Non-admin users even with permissions to that secret do not see the recovery keys. 
      4. Select Yes in Is it a mandatory field? if the above selected field needs to be mandatory.
      5. Select Yes in The field needs to be masked on screen? if the above selected field need to be masked on screen.
      6. Click Add to add this field.
5. Click Save to save a secret template.

Managing Static Secret Templates

You can manage each static secret template by editing/cloning/deleting it.

1. Login to Britive.
2. Click on Admin->Secrets Manager->Static Secret Templates.
3. Select the secret template and select any of the following actions:
   • Manage template: You can Edit, Clone, or Delete a static secret template.
   • Clone template: You can clone an existing static secret template and refine the required fields as per your requirement.
   • Delete template: You can delete a password policy.