> I have several Oracle TDP clients and the passwords have started > expiring. I am not sure why as I did not set an expiry date on the > clients when I defined them. Has anyone else run into this? Did you > automate the password changes? All the clients are UNIX systems.
The TSM server defaults to expiring client passwords every 90 days. The password expirations are taken care of automatically for clients specifying 'passwordaccess generate' in their options files. The backup/archive client is typically configured this way. TDP for Oracle does not support the 'passwordaccess generate' option in Unix environments. We have not tried to automate the password changes for our TDP clients. We have introduced an automated warning process for TDP passwords that are approaching expiration. A cron job on one of our Unix systems finds TSM clients with TDP for Oracle filespaces and checks the age of the password on each such client. If any of the passwords are within seven days of expiration the cron job mails a warning to the DBA's.
