Unable to login to ZAM 7.5 Manager or Web Console

  • 3783162
  • 20-Jun-2007
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management - ZAM7.5
Oracle 9i
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2
ZAM 7 originally installed on C: drive
ZAM 7.5 installed on D: drive

Situation

Unable to login to the ZAM Manager connected to an Oracle database
ZAM Web Console returns an error 500
TSCMgrEvent log does not get created to find out why the ZAM Manager will not start

Resolution

The default username and password for the standard or enterprise deployment of ZAM are case sensitive:
Username: EntAdmin
Password: enterprise
The cause of this particular problem was that the username for the ZAM Manager was entered as:
entadmin
The EntAdmin username is case sensitive when the ZAM Manager is logging into an Oracle database.
See page 9 of the Online Documentation for details.

Additional Information

In this instance, the ZAM Web Console also returned and error 500. See KB 3194450 "Error 500 when attempting to login to ZAM Web Console" for details.