ORA-00020 - Client Procedure Initialization, NEP server (Doc ID 950081.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 02, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle Communications ASAP - Version 4.7.1 to 7.2.4 [Release 4.7 to 7.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 07-Aug-2014***


Symptoms

This is a fatal error that may be found in any ASAP server ${ENV_ID}.diag file.
This error is the same as the above errors, however it occurred at a different stage of the ASAP server initialization:

095353.903:72: LOW:ASC_cpalloc :1573:ctlib.c
CS_MAX_CONNECT property set to [25] max connections per context
>>095353.962:72:PROG:checkerr :1830:ocilib.c
Error - ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (%s) exceeded
errcode[20]
>>095353.962:72:SANE:DBLogon_oci8 :1635:ocilib.c
Error: Failed OCISessionBegin,status[0]
>>095353.963:72:PROG:System Event :83 :ocilib.c
ASAP System Event: SYS_ERR
Error: Unable to open OCI connection
>>095353.963:72:PROG:System Event :309 :ctlib.c
ASAP System Event: SYS_ERR
Error: Unable to open OCI connection
>>095353.965:72: LOW:ASC_cpalloc :1573:ctlib.c
CS_MAX_CONNECT property set to [25] max connections per context
>>095354.027:72:PROG:checkerr :1830:ocilib.c
Error - ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (%s) exceeded
errcode[20]
>>095354.027:72:SANE:DBLogon_oci8 :1635:ocilib.c
Error: Failed OCISessionBegin,status[0]
>>095354.027:72:PROG:System Event :83 :ocilib.c
ASAP System Event: SYS_ERR
Error: Unable to open OCI connection
>>095354.027:72:PROG:System Event :309 :ctlib.c
ASAP System Event: SYS_ERR
Error: Unable to open OCI connection
>>095354.027:72:PROG:System Event :2461:main.c
ASAP System Event: SYS_ERR
Initialization Function [Client Proc. Init] Failed, Terminating Server

Cause

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