Re: Grid Control preferred credentials

[Robert Pegram <pegramrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lisa,
 
We just changed all of our passwords yesterday (286 targets) and  none of our 
jobs (over 500) received this error.  Our oms is 10.2.0.4 and most of the 
agents are 10.2.0.3.  Do you use an rman catalog?  Did you change the rman 
repository settings (password) in Grid Control?
 
Rob Pegram
Duke University


----- Original Message ----
From: "Koivu, Lisa" <Lisa.Koivu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2008 11:01:44 AM
Subject: Grid Control preferred credentials


Hello all, 
 
Grid 10.2.0.4 on Solaris 10, Agents are 10.2.0.4
 
After a long hiatus, my Grid Control implementation has come back to life.  In 
the three months it was sleeping, I had to change the passwords three times for 
our mandatory monthly password “changing of the guard”.  I reset the preferred 
credentials and figured I was fine.   There were multiple places to change it – 
database, host, asm, agent.
 
Oh, no, it’s not that simple.  My rman jobs all fail with “error writing input 
to commandERROR: Invalid username and/or password”.
It’s documented as a problem on Metalink.  It says that when jobs are created, 
the credentials are stored along with them, so basically you have to resubmit 
your jobs whenever you change your passwords. 
 
Okay, fine, stupid but I’ll try it.  It still doesn’t work. 
 
I tried to create a simple rman backup controlfile job and hard coded the 
password in the job (override preferred credentials).  It works fine.  When I 
changed this newly created job to work with preferred credentials, it failed. 
 
I even got so desparate as to bounce the oms after changing preferred 
credentials (win-doze it) and I tried bouncing the agent also.  Still no dice. 
 
Has anyone run into this before?  Were you able to fix it and get around 
hardcoding credentials everywhere?
 
Thanks in advance for any input you may have. 
 
Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Administrator
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