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Exachk is asking for EXACLI username & password instead of SSH connectivity (Doc ID 2846593.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 19, 2023

Applies to:

Exadata Database Machine X8-2/X8M-2 Hardware - Version All Versions and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A to N/A
Exadata Database Machine X9M-2 Hardware - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

While running exachk on a server it is asking for EXACLI usernamee and password.


[root@dbadm01 exachk]# ./exachk

Enter RDMA Network Fabric switch names delimited by comma or skip switches using -excludeprofile switch option. (eg. switch1,switch2,switch3):

Searching for running databases . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
List of running databases registered in OCR

1.TestDB
2. QADB
3. All of above
4. None of above

Select databases from list for checking best practices. For multiple databases, select 2 for All or comma separated number like 1,2 etc [1-4][3]. 4
........
Reading exacli credentials from wallet.

Enter exacli user name: <exacli user>          ===================Asking for Exacli usernamee

Is EXACLI password same on all storage servers?[y/n][y] y


Enter password for EXACLI user root to unlock storage server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:

Changes

 Some possible changes are :

  1. New installation
  2. DNS level change for cell node IPs
  3. Change is routing configuration

Cause

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