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Using Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant with Non-Default root password

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Goal

Provide details on how to perform software deployments on Exadata using OEDA if root's password on target environment is set to a non-default password. 

Solution

 Starting with the November 2016 release, Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant supports deployment on Exadata environments that already have non-default root passwords. You can perform the deployment without having to change the root password back to the default. In earlier releases, OEDA expected the root password to be the default on all the servers in an Exadata environment.

With the new non-default password feature, root passwords can be same or different and/or non-default on each node in a rack. If non-default passwords are already set, add the "-p" option to the existing command line options when you start up OEDA. For example:

./install.sh -cf <config.xml> -s 1 -p

The "-p" option causes OEDA to prompt for the root password. Make sure you enter the correct password because an incorrect password will disable root login for 5 minutes by default, and after 5 failed login attempts, the server will be locked down.

If you want to change the root password on database and storage servers, use the changePassword.sh utility included with OEDA. It is located in the same directory as install.sh.

The following example changes the root password:

./changePassword.sh -cf <config.xml> -userName root

The utility will prompt for the current root password and will allow password changes of any users in the rack. Note that this option assumes that the storage servers are not locked down.

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