Martin, Yes, I should have mentioned that I did get it to work after the MOS cutover; I had to add the "sshosts=getupdates.oracle.com" to make it work and you had mentioned this would not be necessary after the next version. I think I was using the 20100910 version.
And I can log in to MOS and manually download patches, whereas I know some people were not able to do that which is why PCA wasn't working either. This shows that at least my MOS access is not the bottleneck. I do not have access to a machine with direct access; everything here goes through proxies or FWs. I'm waiting to hear back from the proxy guy. Scott -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Paul Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 12:00 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: EXT :Re: [pca] 403 Service Error Nishimura, Scott L (IT Solutions) wrote: > I'm running PCA for the first time in a few months [20101221-01]. I'm now > getting "403 Service Error" when trying to download any patch. As you say "in a few months" - have you ever used it after the switch to the new Oracle servers? Just to be sure - you have replaced your Sun Online Account with a MOS account, right? > I can download the README with wget but not the patch itself. That's strange. So your proxy shouldn't be the problem either. Do you have a firewall which limits outgoing connections? If so, add exceptions for: getupdates.oracle.com a248.e.akamai.net login.oracle.com support.oracle.com The last two are probably required for --supplevel only. If you have the chance to run PCA on a system which has a direct connection to the Internet, try it there to ensure that MOS authentication is fine. Often "403: Service Error" is just a temporary failure, which might not be seen by every user. If nothing helps, wait for 24 hours and then try again. Martin.
