Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Troubleshooting Secret Management Service

Use troubleshooting information to identify and address common issues that can occur while working with the Secret Management Service.

See also Known Issues for Secret Management Service.

Creating a Secret Fails Because of Authorization or Resource Not Found

Use troubleshooting information to resolve authorization issues when creating a secret.

You might not have the required permissions

You need permissions for the vault where you want to create the secret and for the master encryption key that you want to use to encrypt the secret. If no policy exists that grants you the permissions you need, then an administrator must create one for you or add you to a group that's already named in a policy.

Update the policy

  1. If you're an administrator, see following example policy:
    The policy Let security admins manage vaults, keys, and secrets lets the specified group do everything with vaults, keys, and secrets.
  2. To write more restrictive policies, see Details for the Vault Service. If you're new to policies, see Managing Identity Domains and Common Policies.

The vault doesn't exist

The vault might not exist. You can only create a secret in a vault that exists and only when you have permissions to do so.