Complete these administrative tasks after you have deployed software, but before the system is operational.
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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.
If you completed a custom deployment and configured IPMI, then change the default user name and password.
Oracle Clusterware supports the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), an industry-standard protocol that can isolate a failed node from the rest of the cluster. IPMI can restart a problematic node without cooperation from either Oracle Clusterware or from the operating system.
Configuring IPMI is an option when performing a custom deployment of Oracle Database Appliance. Change the default user name and password using the following procedure:
Caution:
Do not change the default passwords until after you deploy software on Oracle Database Appliance. If you change the passwords before deployment completes, then you may encounter configuration errors.
Oracle Auto Service Request (Oracle ASR) is a secure support feature that automatically generates a service request for specific hardware faults. Oracle ASR 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 by choosing the Custom configuration option. You can also configure Oracle ASR after deployment (either Typical or Custom) using the oakcli configure asr
command. The command prompts for input and, after you provide all of the required information, completes the Oracle ASR configuration.
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.
To confirm that you have a working Oracle ASR configured, run the command oakcli test asr
. Review your Oracle ASR configuration with the command oakcli show asr
.