RMAN: unable to register a database

From: hastenthunder <hastenthunder_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:46:25 -0500
Message-ID: <5w8Nd.2615$Ny6.4369@mencken.net.nih.gov>

Hello,

I'm running Oracle 10g on Red Hat Enterprise 3.

My RMAN can register database instances which are sitting on the same box as the recovery manager, but it is experencing difficulties when the target database exisits on a differrent server.

I am using tnsnames.ora for naming purposes, RMAN is the name for recovery manager and TARPON_DMS is the name for target database. The target database can be reached using sqlplus, but rman is showing that the target database status as "not started".

Thanks for your help!

I'm attaching the trace output below.

[oracle_at_maple oracle]$ sqlplus admin_at_tarpon_dms

SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Sat Feb 5 13:39:53 2005

Enter password:

Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

tarpon_dms> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
[oracle_at_maple oracle]$
[oracle_at_maple oracle]$ echo $ORACLE_SID

TARPON_DMS
[oracle_at_maple oracle]$
[oracle_at_maple oracle]$ rman target TARPON_DMS catalog rman_at_RMAN

Recovery Manager: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production

target database Password:
connected to target database (not started) recovery catalog database Password:
connected to recovery catalog database Received on Sat Feb 05 2005 - 12:46:25 CST