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How to bulk test funtional account on various devices

  • May 4, 2026
  • 1 reply
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Hi All, 

We are working on a use case where we are observing password change failures due to multiple reasons, to eliminate funtional account failure and get the systems where it is failing, we need either an API or a way where we can test it. 

 

Any idea on how we can do it for bulk systems?

Account Type:

Local account on Windows

 

Functional account:

Domain account on the domain where the servers are hosted

 

Regards,

Neha

1 reply

  • BeyondTrust Employee
  • May 22, 2026

There is no native API or feature to:

  • Test functional usability of accounts across systems
  • Simulate real login/application usage for all managed systems

Furthermore you cannot retrieve a Functional Account password. If the functional account is not auto-managed and you have stored the Functional Account password either in secret safe or outside of Password Safe there are external methods you can use. 

 

If it’s store in Secret Safe then you can use API to retrieve the Password from Secret safe and connect to a remote machine through winrm.session using the functional account and password. But this method is not something we support and we always recommend setting your Functional Account as auto-managed which reduces the chances of having Password issue due to a Functional Account. 

 

Password Rotation failure can be due to multiple factors, DNS, managed system issue, permission etc.