SunMC db access

Question

Does anyone know how to get access to the oracle db in sunmc 3.5.1u1a? Looking at /etc/shadow it looks as if the smcorau does not have a pwd and the oracle(assuming running ./es-inst created it) account I have no idea what the pwd is. I've been running /opt/SUNWsymon/oracle/product/8*/bin/sqlplus as smcorau(after sudo su - smcorau) and attempting to log in to no avail. I havent been able to find the solution in these forums and not much on the web either. I do not want to directly edit the db, but was asked to investigate an alternate backup method that doesnt require sunmc to be brought down. (I thought I may be able to obtain some usefull data for custom reports as well :) )

Answer 1

Hi Hurtnn,
Does anyone know how to get access to the oracle db
in sunmc 3.5.1u1a?As part of the license agreement displayed during the Server install, you can't really login to that database directly as a regular user (or else every SunMC Server install would essentially give you a free regular Oracle database license). The only supported ways of getting at alarm listings or PRM data are through the published SDK APIs, web/Java/cli interfaces, and PRM data exports (csv/tsv data).
However, if you're just looking at online backups, that's a supported feature as of SunMC 3.5.1b (and is part of 3.6 as well):
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3054/6n5a5n0sa?a=view
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-7961/6mn8bt7de?a=view
So, you can upgrade a point release from 351a to 351b and get the hotbackup feature. It's a Server-only upgrade and all your existing Agents can be left at 351a if you want (SunMC Servers retain backward compatibility with almost all previous Agent versions)
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