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RMAN Connection To Catalog Fails With ORA-12154 (Doc ID 729817.1)

Last updated on MAY 31, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.0 to 11.1.0.7 [Release 8.1.7 to 11.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Connection to RMAN fails with following errors :

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-04004: error from recovery catalog database: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified


 

Cause

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