How-to run vault plugin info for the Vault Enterprise Oracle database plugin

Introduction

How-to run vault plugin info for the Vault Enterprise Oracle database plugin used by the Vault Database Secrets Engine.

Running: vault plugin info database vault-plugin-database-oracle fails with the following error message:

Prerequisites (if applicable)

• Vault Enterprise
• Vault Enterprise Oracle Database plugin
• Vault Database Secrets Engine

Cause

Vault Enterprise Plugins requires the version to be included when running vault plugin info

For example: 

vault plugin info -version=v0.12.3+ent database vault-plugin-database-oracle

Solution:

Please find an working example below:
 

vault plugin info -version=v0.12.3+ent database vault-plugin-database-oracle

Key                   Value
---                   -----
args                  []
builtin               false
command               vault-plugin-database-oracle_0.12.3+ent_linux_amd64/vault-plugin-database-oracle
deprecation_status    n/a
name                  vault-plugin-database-oracle
oci_image             n/a
runtime               n/a
sha256                eef0864b88e6bf99044fb44b15905604d6f04a6289029bb4d2ed91de8da5f776
version               v0.12.3+ent

Outcome

Once -version is included vault plugin info returns the expected output.

This behavior has been observed in all Vault versions up to version 1.20.4 and has been reported to engineering.

Additional Information

• KB Article: Troubleshooting oracle enterprise plugin registration failures in Hashicorp vault

• KB Article: Enabling Oracle Database Secrets Engine

• Vault Documentation: Oracle database secrets engine

• Documentation: The Vault plugin ecosystem

• Vault API Documentation: Oracle database plugin HTTP API