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Number of failed login attempts exceeds threshold value

MaxJun 28 2024 — edited Jun 28 2024

DB version: 19c
OS : RHEL 7.9
Standalone DB

I got an OEM alert which says "Number of failed login attempts exceeds threshold value".
The alert is for a CDB not PDB.

When I login to CDB$ROOT and query unified_audit_trail, I see that the last time "ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied" error encountered in this DB was 10 days back.
Then, why did i get this OEM alert ?

I grepped for ORA-1017 in the DB alert log and listener.log. There are no occurrences of ORA-01017 in either of the file.

How can I find which user is causing this issue ?

SQL> select DBUSERNAME, event_timestamp from unified_audit_trail where action_name = 'LOGON' AND RETURN_CODE = 1017 order by event_timestamp desc;

DBUSERNAME                          EVENT_TIMESTAMP
----------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
MNHSYNCBNC01                        18-JUN-24 12.05.25.450838 PM
                                   05-MAY-24 09.33.02.986938 AM
                                   03-MAY-24 01.31.39.213022 PM
                                   03-MAY-24 09.56.41.333193 AM
                                   20-APR-24 07.02.19.104244 PM
                                   20-APR-24 10.31.44.176113 AM
                                   12-NOV-23 07.17.09.866765 AM
                                   11-NOV-23 10.37.45.737698 AM
                                   17-OCT-23 06.37.36.083480 AM
                                   16-OCT-23 10.12.15.418017 AM
                                   13-JUN-23 07.52.28.611704 AM
                                   12-JUN-23 08.11.18.837970 PM
SYS                                 12-JUN-23 01.28.19.089736 PM
C##GGATE                            12-JUN-23 01.25.15.211874 PM
SYS                                 09-JUN-23 01.55.16.142521 AM
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