Resolving EPMAT-7: Unable to Delete Password File: .prefs Error

Scheduled EPM Automate jobs may fail intermittently and display EPMAT-7:Unable to delete password file: .prefs error. Generally, this error is reported when EPM Automate commands affecting more than one environment are run in parallel from the same directory.

While running commands against an environment, EPM Automate creates a .prefs file that stores session information. During the parallel execution of commands from one directory against multiple environments, EPM Automate is able to maintain only one .prefs file within the directory. As a result, because it is able to execute commands only against the environment for which the .prefs file is available, EPM Automate reports this error.

To resolve this issue, you have two options:

• Run EPM Automate from different directories so that the script executing commands against one Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud environment is seperated from the the script running commands against another environment. This allows scripts to create and maintain .prefs files in different directories.
• Update your scripts so that multiple sessions against different environments can be maintained from the same directory.

For more information, see Running Multiple Instances of EPM Automate in Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.