SOA - "ORA-28001: the password has expired" Errors - How to Change the Repository Database Passwords for the SOA Schemas? (Doc ID 1303698.1)

Last updated on MARCH 21, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle SOA Suite - Version 11.1.1.1.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal


Your whole SOA enviroment is down and there is no way to make it work.
You have been using Oracle SOA for some time and now you get the following error in your logs:

MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document
MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"
MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "OWSM_TargetRepos" is invalid.
MDS-00922: The ConnectionManager "oracle.mds.internal.persistence.db.JNDIConnectionManagerImpl" cannot be instantiated.
weblogic.common.resourcepool.ResourceDeadException: 0:weblogic.common.ResourceException: Could not create pool connection. The DBMS driver exception was: ORA-28001: the password has expired


Also, it is possible to find the following error in the logs:

ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied



Solution

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