ODI Agent keeps stopping

Question

*HP-UX B.11.31 ia64
Database 11.2.0.1.0
ODI 10.1.3.6.2*
We have two separate installations of the database and odi on two separate dev instances on two separate servers.
Today we are experiencing the same problem where the ODI agent will start using start_odi_agent.sh and will create 2 UNIX processes, the agentscheduler and a JAVA process as normal but then after about 5 seconds the processes will stop.
This is the entry in the ODI_AGENT.log and is exactly the same on both servers apart from the URL.
Starting Oracle Data Integrator Agent...
Version : 10.1.3.6.2 - 19/04/2010
10/10/2011 01:12:24 PM(main): DwgCmd: getUniqueThreadIdentifier : :Before : mThreadIDIncrementCounter : 0
10/10/2011 01:12:24 PM(main): DwgCmd: getUniqueThreadIdentifier : :After : mThreadIDIncrementCounter : 1 : Unique ID : 0
com.sunopsis.sql.l: Oracle Data Integrator Timeout: connection with URL jdbc:oracle:thin:@************************:6062:****DB4 and user odi_master_dev4.
     at com.sunopsis.sql.SnpsConnection.a(SnpsConnection.java)
     at com.sunopsis.sql.SnpsConnection.connect(SnpsConnection.java)
     at com.sunopsis.dwg.cmd.e.j(e.java)
     at com.sunopsis.dwg.cmd.n.a(n.java)
     at com.sunopsis.l.f.run(f.java)
     at com.sunopsis.dwg.cmd.i.A(i.java)
     at com.sunopsis.dwg.cmd.i.run(i.java)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
It stops very abruptly!
Can anyone shed any light on this problem? I am a DBA and am fairly new to ODI and this one has me struggling.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Can you make sure that windows account have the this privilege?
The Windows account under which the agent runs is used when it makes connections to the Distributor. This account must:
At minimum, be a member of the db_owner fixed database role in the distribution database.
Have read, write, and modify permissions on the snapshot share.
The account that is used to connect to the Publisher must at minimum be a member of the db_owner fixed database role in the publication database.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151868.aspx
--Prashanth