Essbase.Sec corruption and relation with Planning

Hi all,
Is there any relation for Essbase security file with other Hyperion tools ?
We have security in Shared Services and have variety of Hyperion tools. If Essbase security file gets corrupted and restored backup is historical then will it has impact on security of other tools like Planning, FR, etc ? I understand we have to rebuilt security for Essbase since the historical restored file.
Thanks in Advance.

HN,
You should really have a nightly backup of your security file. It's easy to force it to a backup file (or just take whatever the latest backup is but I think I like the force backup approach even better) and thus not have to stop Essbase to get the critical information. See this thread:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/58296/thread/1365190013/Essbase-sec+Backup
Regards,
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Some days ago we had to restart Essbase in order to activate some new config settings. But Essbase wouldn't start. We got the following error message on startup:
Fatal Error: Invalid record in security file. Restart Essbase using the latest backup security file, or set the ENABLESWITCHTOBACKUPFILE.
We switched to an essbase.sec from the day before and Essbase started. Then, some days later we once again had to restart the Essbase service, and then the exact thing happened once again. I started digging into different log files and I've found the following:
- A couple of days before the first restart of the Essbase service I see the following error message in the Essbase.log:
[Wed Oct 03 00:42:28 2012]Local/ESSBASE0///11068/Error(1056794)
Creation of backup file [E:\Oracle\EssbaseServer\bin\ESSBASETS_1349217747.BAK] failed with error status [1]
The secfile backup occurs every 5 minutes and have completed successfully every time since march 2012 (when we also had similar problems with corruption of the secfile).
- Just before the error I see that a refresh of Planning security filters is going on (triggered by a batch job).
- After we got Essbase up and running the first time with the secfile from the day before (but after the the first occurence of the error message "Creation of backup file...", which happened a day before that) the backup of the secfile completes successfully for a little while and then fails again with the same error message. I once again notice that a refresh of Planning security filters is going on right before the error occurs (triggered manually by a user)
- The exact same things as the previous point happened when we got Essbase up and running the second time.
My hypothesis is that something bad happened to the secfile when the first "Creation of backup fil..." error message appeared in the log file. And when Essbase was restarted two days later the error kicked in. I suspect we have som issues with our security. I wonder for instance what would happen if by accident an msad user was removed from msad (not Hyperion) and a Planning security refresh takes place...
I should also mention that after we got Essbase up and running the first and second time I notice the following error message some minutes after the first occurence of the "Creation of backup fil..." error message:
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I hope some of you gurus can shed som light on this because I'm pretty sure the same thing will happen again the next time we restart Essbase.
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Hello again John!
Yesterday I finally had the opportunity to take the system down and do some testing.
First I did some testing without making any changes, just to see if I could isolate the problem application. I did it in the following manner:
- Restart Essbase with healthy secfile.
- Refresh Planning security from application A. Then watch the Essbase.log until an incremental backup of the Essbase.sec was completed. If successfull backup, I repeat the process with the Planning application B and so on.
- I finally isolated three applications which, after planning security refresh, lead to unsuccessful incremental backup of Essbase.sec.
- Then I applied an msad group filter in HSS as you suggested, restarted the whole environment (Essbase, HSS, Planning, ...) and also put back the healthy secfile.
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[Tue Oct 30 21:18:31 2012]Local/ESSBASE0///5220/Info(1056797)
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Exception error log completed D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\P114270071\diagnostics\logs\essbase\essbase_0\log00001.xcp please contact technical support and provide them with this file
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