ORA-28001 the password has expired (DBD Error:OCISessionBegin)

It seems that when you're experiencing a ORA-28001, or if the enterprise manager is unable to connect to the database instance, the probable cause to the issue is that the SYSMAN user password has expired. Not a problem, you an can unlock this user with the example below (in this case, the password for the SYSMAN is 'password')
August 29, 2012
Oracle-Databases

SQL Commands

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[oracle@localhost ~]$ sqlplus /nolog

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Tue Aug 21 19:19:40 2012

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.

SQL> conn / as sysdba;
Connected.
SQL> ALTER USER SYSMAN IDENTIFIED BY password ACCOUNT UNLOCK;

User altered.

SQL> quit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
[oracle@localhost ~]$ sqlplus /nolog

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Tue Aug 21 19:20:04 2012

Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.

SQL> conn sysman/password
Connected.
SQL>


Other Users expired

https://technicalconfessions.com/images/postimages/postimages/_47_2_other credentials.png

Once I made the alteration to the database above and re-entered into the enterprise manager, I was then notified that other user account passwords has also expired (no surprise considering they have been for about 1 year now!).


Agent connect

https://technicalconfessions.com/images/postimages/postimages/_47_3_confirmation_of_DB_instances.png

Once I logged back into the enterprise manager, I then received confirmation that the database, the listener and the agent is up and running.


ORA-28001: the password has expired

You may be experiencing the following error:

Caused By: oracle.security.am.common.policy.admin.PolicyManagerException: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: Exception [EclipseLink-4002] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 1.1.0.r3634): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DatabaseException Internal Exception: weblogic.jdbc.extensions.ConnectionDeadSQLException: weblogic.common.resourcepool.ResourceDeadException: 0:weblogic.common.ResourceException: Could not create pool connection. The DBMS driver exception was: ORA-28001: the password has expired

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