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Title
Oracle Backups Fail or complete with warnings if Password is Set for Default User -
Description
When running a backup configured by the NetVault GUI, it is able to backup the items selected, but if control file autobackup is enable the control file backups fail. Starting a backup from within RMAN will also fail.Information 2014/11/03 14:21:26 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 Starting Control File and SPFILE Autobackup at 03-NOV-14Information 2014/11/03 14:21:52 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 RMAN-00571: ===========================================================Information 2014/11/03 14:21:53 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============Information 2014/11/03 14:21:53 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 RMAN-00571: ===========================================================Information 2014/11/03 14:21:53 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 RMAN-03009: failure of Control File and SPFILE Autobackup command on c1 channel at 11/03/2014 14:10:...Information 2014/11/03 14:21:53 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 RMAN-10038: database session for channel c1 terminated unexpectedlyInformation 2014/11/03 14:21:53 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 Recovery Manager complete.Warning 2014/11/03 14:21:53 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 Failed with exit code 1Error 2014/11/03 14:21:53 83 Data Plugin CLIENT1 RMAN returned exit code 1 -
Cause
Control file autobackups and backups initiated by RMAN use the NetVault Media Manager library to initiate backups in NetVault. Authetication is required with NetVault Backup for this to happen. By default it will use the user "default" with a blank password and the "default" user in Manage Users will have a blank password by default. If a password is set for the default user in Manage Users, that authentication will fail.
In previous version of NetVault Backup you could run nvplubinaccess from the command line on the NetVault server to configure the credentials that would be used in these cases, but this does not currently work in NetVault Backup 10.
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Resolution
You can reset the password for the default user to blank to fix it.
On Linux/Unix systems it is possible to get it to work with the password set.
When running backups from RMAN, you can set some environment variables to define the user and password that will be used to run CLI commands.
NETVAULTCLIACCOUNT
NETVAULTCLIPASSWORD
These can be configured in the same way as Oracle environment variables are set. For example, in a Linux Bash shell you could use this command to configure the password it will use.
export NETVAULTCLIPASSWORD=mypassword
This will only set it within the current Bash shell. For control file autobackups, you will need to modify the script that starts NetVault backup to include this environment variable. In Linux this will be the startup.sh file where NetVault Backup is installed. By default it would be /usr/netvault/etc/startup.sh
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Defect ID
27706