Support: Oracle data is not inventoried via Snow Inventory Agent for Windows
Issue
- No Oracle data is being inventoried by Snow Inventory Agent despite it being configured to inventory Oracle data.
- The error messages found in the sios.rotation*.log files:
2018-05-11T12:19:10+02:00; Verbose; *None*; se.snow.oracleaudit.oracle.SqlPlusExecutor; doTheSqlPlusAction;; Result from server: SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Fri May 11 12:19:10 2018 Copyright (c) 1982, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved. ERROR: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-20999: Alias for User ID <LSCAN> in <ORACLE_DATA_DICT> not defined in REPOSITORY ORA-06512: at "RDBMX.DATALOAD_PKG", line 227 ORA-06512: at "RDBMX.NUMBERPV_STARTTICK_NW", line 125 ORA-06512: at line 9 Enter user-name: ERROR: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied Enter user-name:2018-05-11T12:19:11+02:00; WARNING; XML-creation;;;; ORA-00942: table or view does not exist-942 - Instance=anwlgst2018-05-11T12:19:11+02:00; WARNING; XML-creation;;;; Error has occured in: oracledboptions:PARTITIONING - ORA-00942: table or view does not exist-942
- The snowagent.log file does not contain error messages that are most probably caused by Snow Inventory Agent not being able to inventory Oracle data.
Environment
- Snow Inventory Agent for Windows v5.3
- Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner 5.0.1+418fb23b50bb1333383b5f52adef5956a9350906
- Oracle scanning is enabled in Snow Inventory Agent, using DefaultInstanceCredentials
Analysis
- Permissions was checked once more and it showed that Client didn’t have all permissions.
Resolution
- The permissions needed were change in last SIOS documentation, after verification and assigning everything works fine.
- Added more permissions to the account being used for the scan of the Client solved the issue
WINDOWS
- In Windows the Oracle Scanner is run with an administrative user account (Local Admin on the server).
LINUX AND UNIX
- In Linux and Unix there are two privilege options for running the Oracle Scanner, and each option is described in the sections below.
FULL PRIVILEGES
- A user with root privileges or a user with privileges to run the Java runtime with the sudo program is required.
Link to the user guide for Snow Inventory Oracle Scanner :
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