Today While I was doing RMAN duplication, I faced this error when trying to make TARGET connection using RMAN. I am on 11gR2.
Following command resulted in error
rman target hi_dba/upgrade123@target
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.3.0 – Production on Mon Jun 29 12:08:02 2015
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RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-04005: error from target database:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
I tried creating a new user, granted SYSDBA privilege and even recreated password file and tried using SYS. It still showed same error. My remote_login_passwordfile value was EXCLUSIVE and I have copied password file to AUXILIARY instance home.
The target was a RAC database and SERVICE_NAME I used in TNS resolution can be registered in any of the RAC node. I created a new TNS alias adding INSTANCE_NAME so that connection goes to only one instance. It can also work with ORACLE_SID instead of adding INSTANCE_NAME.
Following TNS alias did the trick.
TARGET =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = abc.co.uk)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(INSTANCE_NAME = SALES1)
(SERVICE_NAME = SALES)
)
)
Conclusion : Either use a service name which will be in only one node or use INSTANCE_NAME or ORACLE_SID in your name resolution.
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