Data Guard Agent, Authentication Failure

Question

I'm working with two Windows 2003 servers, attempting to use one as a standby and one as a primary database use Data Guard. However, I'm having a bit of trouble when trying to get one server to communicate through the Management Agent and Management Service. I've done Management Agent installs on about 20 XP workstations and they've also worked wonderfully with the Oracle Grid Control.
When the agent on my would-be standby database instance starts up I'm receiving the following errors in emagent.trc:
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN main: clear collection state due to OMS_version difference
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN command: Job Subsystem Timeout set at 600 seconds
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN upload: Upload manager has no Failure script: disabled
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN upload: Recovering left over xml files in upload directory
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN upload: Recovered 0 left over xml files in upload directory
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Metric RuntimeLog does not have any data columns
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Metric collectSnapshot does not have any data columns
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 ERROR engine: [oracle_bc4j] CategoryProp NAME [VersionCategory] is not one of the valid choices
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 ERROR engine: ParseError: File=D:\oracle\product\10.1.0\dg\sysman\admin\metadata\oracle_bc4j.xml, Line=486, Msg=attribute NAME in <CategoryProp> cannot be NULL
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name EFFICIENCY__BYTES_SAVED_WITH_COMPRESSION__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_START too long, truncating to EFFICIENCY__BYTES_SAVED_WITH_COMPRESSION__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_STAR
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name ESI__ERRORS__ESI_DEFAULT_FRAGMENT_SERVED__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_START too long, truncating to ESI__ERRORS__ESI_DEFAULT_FRAGMENT_SERVED__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_STAR
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name SERVERS__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__REQUESTS__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_START too long, truncating to SERVERS__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__REQUESTS__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_STA
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name SERVERS__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__LATENCY__MAX_PER_SEC_SINCE_START too long, truncating to SERVERS__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__LATENCY__MAX_PER_SEC_SINCE_STAR
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name SERVERS__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__LATENCY__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_START too long, truncating to SERVERS__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__LATENCY__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_STAR
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name SERVERS__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__OPEN_CONNECTIONS__MAX_SINCE_START too long, truncating to SERVERS__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__OPEN_CONNECTIONS__MAX_SINCE_STA
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name SERVER__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__REQUESTS__MAX_PER_SEC_SINCE_START too long, truncating to SERVER__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__REQUESTS__MAX_PER_SEC_SINCE_STAR
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name SERVER__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__REQUESTS__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_START too long, truncating to SERVER__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__REQUESTS__AVG_PER_SEC_SINCE_STAR
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Column name SERVER__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__OPEN_CONNECTIONS__MAX_SINCE_START too long, truncating to SERVER__APP_SRVR_STATS__SERVER__OPEN_CONNECTIONS__MAX_SINCE_STAR
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Metric Wireless_PID does not have any data columns
2005-11-01 15:16:54 Thread-3836 WARN metadata: Metric numberOfAppDownloadsOverInterval_instance does not have any data columns
2005-11-01 15:17:00 Thread-4172 WARN vpxoci: OCI Error -- ErrorCode(1017): ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
SQL = " OCISessionBegin"...
LOGIN = dbsnmp/<PW>@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=MY_DATABASE)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=CPD2DB)))
2005-11-01 15:17:00 Thread-4172 ERROR vpxoci: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
2005-11-01 15:17:00 Thread-4172 WARN vpxoci: Login 0xe8c220 failed, error=ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
2005-11-01 15:17:00 Thread-4172 WARN TargetManager: Exception in computing dynamic properties of {MY_DATABASE, oracle_database },MonitorConfigStatus::ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
2005-11-01 15:17:01 Thread-4172 WARN vpxoci: OCI Error -- ErrorCode(1017): ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
I've already toggled the Local Security Policy (Log On As Batch Job) setting in Windows, unlocked the Monitoring Profile account, etc. I've also tried to set the Preferred Host Credentials for the database, but it doesn't seem to want to authenticate the Windows 2003 Administrator user.
Anyone have any other suggestions?

Answer 1

Check the following:
Does the user have administrative privilege on the system?
Is the user running this part of ORA_DBA group?
Does the user have the local security policy "Logon as Batch Job"?
Have you set the OS Preferred Credential? If you are a domain user, this will be looking for domain\user name instead of just the user name.
On another note:
Have you doen any upgrades to the OMS repository?
If yes, is the new Repository compatible with the EM Console?