After you obfuscate the Secure Credential Store password, you can encrypt plain text properties.

The following example demonstrates how to encrypt properties in the Analytics Agent:

$ /<full path to application JRE>/bin/java -jar scs-tool.jar encrypt -filename /opt/appdynamics/secretKeyStore -storepass 'Welcome' -plaintext 'MyAccountAccessKey'

The property generates an encrypted credential:

-001-24-pFoSE/xdPcinkBj9iiKvpQ==Rznx8Kt3sPZHQnKfYyubVuhorrBEbYFtDTPm8c/1kFO+Z2eR2WEHtBRg4vy1GyvJ