Hi guys

During 2016-2017 I have done few Weblogic 12c setups for my lab & my setup was accessed for some assignments after a long idle time which was exceeding many months…

I had Windows Services created for both Node Manager & Weblogic Admin servers using NSSM & realized there were something wrong once after many attempts to access the admin console turned out to be futile. So I tried to start the services manually using the scripts & the startWeblogic.cmd terminated with the following error:

Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-28001: the password has expired

As I always said, I am not a Weblogic guru, just another folk who tries to install and configure new Oracle stuffs. Hence I started searching google using the error that was provided to me during the previous run.

Unfortunately, nothing that could solve my issues were found and I opted to leave it as it is.

All I knew that passwords for few schemas related to Admin Server Repository have been expired. I did a QUERY to find out which schema were having expired passwords and all the repository related schemas were showing expired passwords

1. DEV_IAU_VIEWER
2. DEV_IAU_APPEND
3. DEV_IAU
4. DEV_OPSS
5. DEV_STB

These are the schemas created when the repository is created & if the 12c database instance is NOT altered to allowing never expiring passwords, it was obvious the schema passwords expire on the expected dates.

I tried to reset the passwords for all the schema those were having expired password and altered the database instance to allow never expiring passwords. Tried to start the admin server, again ending up with the same error…

Recently I changed my work laptop with a new Dell 5480 & started setting up Weblogic 12c environment & as I had enough experiences with the configurations, was able to complete the entire setup within few hours time. This time I wanted to make sure that, due to password expiry I shouldn’t have the same troubles I had with my previous setup(s). So once everything was setup, I altered the database instance

ALTER PROFILE DEFAULT LIMIT PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME UNLIMITED;

and confirmed that none of repository related schema has an expiry date associated with it.

So, for a lab setup this is more than enough to insure that I will not go through the troubles with expired passwords, causing Weblogic admin server to fail while started. What about a real situation where a DBA is facing this crisis?

So my fresh rounds of google searching started and I landed on a page https://linecode-notes.com/2017/09/08/unable-to-start-the-admin-server-in-forms-12c-due-to-ora-28001/ while using Google search term “oracle weblogic 12c dev_stb password expired”

I had gone through the post minutely and replicated the same scenarios at my end to insure that the instructions provided by the author is generic. Everything worked as expected, most probably because I altered the DEV_OPSS schema password with the same password I initially assigned to it. Hence there were no errors while I tried to start the Admin Server after running the wlst command.

The Only confusing part in the original post should be about the wlst command which says

modifyBootStrapCredential(jpsConfigFile='<Oracle_Home>/user_projects/domains/base_domain/config/fmwconfig/jps-config.xml’,username=’DEV_OPSS’,password=’xxx_n_pass’)

Where <Oracle_Home> should be replaced with actual path. For example, this is what I did. If you have given another name for the domain instead of suggested “base_domain”, replace the base_domain portion with correct name.

(In short, change the path according to your installation parameters!)

modifyBootStrapCredential(jpsConfigFile=’D:/Weblogic/Middleware/Oracle_Home/user_projects/domains/base_domain/config/fmwconfig/jps-config.xml’,username=’DEV_OPSS’,password=’PassWord123′)

Notice the “/” in the path, regardless whether you are on Windows or Unix environments, you must use forward slash “/”

& Most important, do not forget to alter the user with the new password

ALTER USER DEV_OPSS IDENTIFIED BY PassWord123;

Follow rest of the instructions available with the original post. The same author has another post dealing with ORA-28000 (Account locked) for Weblogic as well.

So guys, I hope, for a beginner with Weblogic like me, this is a tremendous information that could save another fresh install and configurations!

Hope this post helps few out there!

regards,

rajesh