Grid Infrastructure Installation on Windows: [INS-40980] Installer has detected that alias names is specified for the following nodes (Doc ID 2545889.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.2.0.1 and later
Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

Grid Infrastructure installation on Windows is failing with the following error reported while running gridsetup.bat:

WARNING: [21 May, 2019 9:34:33 PM] [WARNING] [INS-40980] Installer has detected that alias names is specified for the following nodes:
[<nodename>].

These nodes will be ignored and not participate in the configured Grid Infrastructure.
CAUSE: Alias host names are specified.

Changes

Cause

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Grid Infrastructure Installation on Windows: [INS-40980] Installer has detected that alias names is specified for the following nodes (Doc ID 2545889.1)

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