Hi You could also change the profile being used to allow unlimited failed_login_attempts, to stop what is in effect a denial of service situation. Regards Pete On 11 April 2013 08:32, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You could try enterprise manager and its agents. It retrys frequently. > > Sent from my Windows Phone > From: C P > Sent: 11/04/2013 05:55 > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: account locking up > All, > We recently migrated an application into a 11g database in a server. After > the upgrade one of the accounts necessary for connecting to the DB keeps > locking up, because some application is trying to log in with wrong > password. Our application team is unable to come up with a full list of > servers or locations where the connections could come from. I was trying to > find the information from the listener log. It has few entries close > (within a minute or two) the time of lock issues, but the status code is > '0' which I think indicates a success. I am assuming it is not a failed > connection. Is there a way in which to figure out where the connections are > coming from. TIA > > CP. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Regards Pete -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l