Could not validate ASMSNMP password due to following error- "ORA-01031: insufficient privileges".

  Recently i have come across this error. If you get this error when configuring RAC database.

           Please do the following:

          As for as 11GR2 is concern, ASM is installed along with the GRID.

          Please login as user grid

         [grid]$ orapwd file=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/dbs/orapwasm password=asm


         Using SCP copy ASM password file to rac2

         [grid]$ scp orapwasm rac2:/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/dbs/

       
        Once SCP is done 

        Login in to ASM database as 

        [grid]sqlplus / as sysasm

        SQL>create user asmsnmp identified by asm;

        SQL> grant sysdba to asmsnmp;

       The reason for creating above user is to collect the statistics for ASM.