Connection to Auxilary using connect string failed with ORA-12528 [ID 419440.1]




 

Modified 15-FEB-2011     Type PROBLEM     Status PUBLISHED

 

In this Document
  ​​​Symptoms​​​  ​​Cause​​  ​​Solution​​  ​​References​




Applies to:


Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 9.2.0.1 to 11.1.0.6 - Release: 9.2 to 11.1
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 15-Feb-2011***


Symptoms


 During duplicate database creation, connection to the auxiliary database from target database server  fails with  ORA-12528: TNS:listener: all appropriate instances are blocking new connections.

E:/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/BIN>rman target / auxiliary sys/sys@duplicate

Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Mar 16 00:11:05 2007

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

connected to target database: ORIGINAL (DBID=1451288337)
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-04006: error from auxiliary database: ORA-12528: TNS:listener: all appropri
ate instances are blocking new connections

When it fails , add manual entry for sid in listener.ora as per ​​Note 301099.1​

However, still you receive the same error on connect in some cases.


Cause


Its because only the Auxiliary Instance is running .The instance registers with the listener by the PMON process. TO start the PMON process the database need to be in MOUNT status. Before there is nothing to register the database to the listerner so the instance is BLOCKED.


Solution


There are 2 options to solve this problem

Option 1

Connect to the auxiliary instance using OS authentication (as /) and use password file authentication for target database and connect via Listener.For example make below connection in RMAN from auxiliary database server

 

​E:>rman target sys/sys@original auxiliary /​​​
​Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Mar 15 23:57:08 2007​
​Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.​
​connected to target database: ORIGINAL (DBID=1451288337)​​​​connected to auxiliary database: DUPLICATE (not mounted)​

 

 

Option 2
Create a static entry for the auxiliary database in the listener.ora file of the auxiliary database Oracle home and restart the listener. For example

​Listener.ora​​​​-------------​
​SID_LIST_LISTENER =​​​​  (SID_LIST =​​​​    (SID_DESC =​​​​      (GLOBAL_DBNAME = SAIRAM)​​​​      (ORACLE_HOME = G:/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1)​​​​      (SID_NAME = SAIRAM)​​​​    )​​​​  )​

Or

Use the Oracle10G feature. Make below entry in the tnsnames.ora file of the Oracle home from when RMAN is being executed.

​tnsnames.ora​​​​------------​
​SAIRAM =​​​​  (DESCRIPTION =​​​​    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = apadhi-idc)(PORT = 1521))​​​​    (CONNECT_DATA =​​​​      (SERVER = DEDICATED)​​​​      (SERVICE_NAME = SAIRAM)(UR=A)​​​​    )​​​​  )​

This fix is required for administrative connections where we specify (UR=A) in connect data.


References


​NOTE:301099.1​​ - ORA-12528: TNS:listener: all appropriate instances are blocking new connections