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2012R1.8

I'm trying out the Oracle wizards. I downloaded the latest oracle wizards, installed the required packages using the notes provided, then tried the Oracle Serverspace wizard but I kept getting errors like:

CRITICAL - cannot connect to <serverip>:<serverport>\<instancename>. ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach)

After poking around and some google searches, I tried changing the backslash between the serverport and instancename to a forward slash and it worked. Perhaps the backslash works on a Windows server, but my linux box perfers the forward slash. Since this service argument was created by the wizard, I'll have to manually change it on up to 18 checks per db instance. Hopefully the wizard (or the check_oracle_health script) can be
modified to fix this.

Thanks for the information. I will try to reproduce the behavior.

We are seeing the same issue. Our DBA has had to go change the slash to make the checks work.

2012R2.2

Yes changing the slash is a fix for this, it was mentioned to me in passing a few months ago. We can append the documentation to keep this issue to a minimum.