Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Oracle Dataguard Switchover using DGMGRL - Error : ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

 

DGMGRL Error : ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied


DGMGRL> switchover to india_stby;

Performing switchover NOW, please wait...

Operation requires a connection to database "india_stby"

Connecting ...

ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied


Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.


        connect to instance "india_stby" of database "india_stby"


we have to provide sys user credentials (username/password pair) to connect to database in DGMGRL also check sec_case_sensitive_logon database parameter . 

In order to resolve ORA-01017 this error , we have to connect to dgmgrl utility using below method :


[oracle@ip-10-0-1-12 ~]$ dgmgrl

DGMGRL for Linux: Release 12.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue May 25 14:02:07 2021

Copyright (c) 1982, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

Welcome to DGMGRL, type "help" for information.

DGMGRL> connect sys@india

Password:

Connected to "india"

Connected as SYSDBA.

DGMGRL>

DGMGRL>

DGMGRL>

DGMGRL> show configuration;


Configuration - india


  Protection Mode: MaxPerformance

  Members:

  india      - Primary database

    india_stby - Physical standby database


Fast-Start Failover: DISABLED


Configuration Status:

SUCCESS   (status updated 48 seconds ago)


DGMGRL>

DGMGRL>

DGMGRL> switchover to india_stby

Performing switchover NOW, please wait...

Operation requires a connection to database "india_stby"

Connecting ...

Connected to "india_stby"

Connected as SYSDBA.

New primary database "india_stby" is opening...

Operation requires start up of instance "india" on database "india"

Starting instance "india"...

ORA-32004: obsolete or deprecated parameter(s) specified for RDBMS instance

ORACLE instance started.

Database mounted.

Database opened.

Connected to "india"

Switchover succeeded, new primary is "india_stby"

DGMGRL>

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