5 Oracle Database Appliance Postinstallation Tasks

Complete these administrative tasks after you have deployed software, but before the system is operational.

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Changing the Oracle Installation Owner Passwords

You must change the default administrative account passwords after installation to secure your system.

During deployment, the root and database users SYS, SYSTEM and PDBADMIN are set to the master password. After deployment, the oracle and grid passwords are set to welcome1. Change the passwords to comply with your enterprise user security protocols.

Refer to the Oracle Database Appliance Security Guide and Oracle Database Security Guide for information about the required configuration and best practices to secure database systems.

Changing the SYSMAN Password After Installation

Change the SYSMAN user password after installing Oracle Database Appliance with Oracle Database 11g.

When you install Oracle Database Appliance with Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Enterprise Manager Console 11.2 (dbconsole) is installed and configured automatically. The SYSMAN user is created as part of the database creation with the default master password.

The SYSMAN account is the default super user account used to set up and administer Enterprise Manager. The SYSMAN account is also the database account that owns the objects stored in the Oracle Management Repository. You can set up additional administrator accounts from this account, and you can set up Enterprise Manager for use in your organization.

See the Database 2 Day + Security Guide at https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/database.html for how to secure Oracle Database user accounts.

Changing the oda-admin User Password

Use the odacli-adm command to change the oda-admin user password to restrict access to the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console.

Oracle Database Appliance is configured with a default user name, oda-admin, and password welcome1. The credentials enable access to the Web Console. After deploying the appliance, Oracle recommends resetting the oda-admin user password.

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Only root user can reset the oda-admin user credentials.
  1. Log in to the appliance as root.
  2. Run the odacli-adm set-credential command to reset the password. Enter the new password when prompted. 
    # odacli-adm set-credential --password --username oda-admin
  Agent password: new password
    For more information about the odacli-adm set-credential command, refer to odacli-adm set-credential.

Configuring Oracle Auto Service Request

Configure Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR) to automatically generate service requests for specific hardware faults.

Oracle ASR is a secure support feature that can improve system availability through expedited diagnostics and priority service request handling. You can configure Oracle ASR on Oracle Database Appliance to use its own ASR Manager or use Oracle ASR Manager configured on another server in the same network as your appliance.

To support Oracle ASR, your Oracle Database Appliance hardware must be associated with a Support Identifier (SI) in My Oracle Support.

You can configure Oracle ASR during initial deployment in the Oracle Appliance Manager Web Console. An Oracle ASR configuration requires you to enter your My Oracle Support account user name and password. If a proxy server is required for Internet access to Oracle, then you must also provide the name of the proxy server. You can optionally configure Oracle ASR to use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Version 2 or SNMP Version 3.

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