Issues with renamed SMAT database sites

The site name is used as a key to encrypt and decrypt the SMAT database. An error can happen when a SMAT database site is renamed and an attempt is made to access archived SMAT DB files.

Messages in the SMAT DB files become inaccessible from the time the site was renamed.

For example:

  1. A site named siteA is renamed to siteB.
  2. In siteA, the SMAT database is encrypted with key A.
  3. After renaming the site, the SMAT database that was encrypted with key A cannot be accessed with key B. This is the key from siteB’s SMAT database.
  4. xxx. smatdb-sec is generated to store SMAT messages. You cannot find any messages in the SMAT database files since the time the site was renamed.