CELL-02630: There is a communication error between Management Server and Cell Server caused by a mismatch of security keys. Check that both servers have access to and use the same $OSSCONF/cellmskey.ora file.

IHAC who is on Exadata image version: 11.2.3.3.0.131014.1, faced below issue.

Any command on cellcli was failing with error: CELL-02630.

CELL-02630: There is a communication error between Management Server and Cell Server caused by a mismatch of security keys. Check that both servers have access to and use the same $OSSCONF/cellmskey.ora file.

If you read error description, it refers to communication error between CELLSRV & MS processes, due to mismatch in security keys.

I did check current status of CELL process & all were up & running.


[root@test01celadm01 ~]# service celld status
rsStatus: running
msStatus: running
cellsrvStatus: running

MS always creates key file ==> cellmskey.ora on startup if it does not exist. But in our case it was not present. (Not sure if someone deleted it manually)

I asked customer to restart MS process & check if it helps. After restarting MS process, CELLCLI commands started working as expected 🙂


CellCLI> alter cell restart services ms

Restarting MS services...
The RESTART of MS services was successful.

CellCLI> list celldisk
CD_00_test01celadm01 normal
CD_01_test01celadm01 normal
CD_02_test01celadm01 normal
CD_03_test01celadm01 normal
CD_04_test01celadm01 normal
CD_05_test01celadm01 normal
CD_06_test01celadm01 normal
CD_07_test01celadm01 normal
CD_08_test01celadm01 normal
CD_09_test01celadm01 normal
CD_10_test01celadm01 normal
CD_11_test01celadm01 normal
FD_00_test01celadm01 normal
FD_01_test01celadm01 normal
FD_02_test01celadm01 normal
FD_03_test01celadm01 normal
FD_04_test01celadm01 normal
FD_05_test01celadm01 normal
FD_06_test01celadm01 normal
FD_07_test01celadm01 normal
FD_08_test01celadm01 normal
FD_09_test01celadm01 normal
FD_10_test01celadm01 normal
FD_11_test01celadm01 normal
FD_12_test01celadm01 normal
FD_13_test01celadm01 normal
FD_14_test01celadm01 normal
FD_15_test01celadm01 normal

Hope so u will find this post very useful 🙂

Cheers

Regards,
Adityanath

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