I don't need to login to the ASM instance remotely. It was needed by a Golden Gate replicat pump. I got it resolved after creating the orapwd file. Thanks, Nadeem. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Yechiel Adar <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Try on the database server: > export ORACLE_SID=ASM1 > ( or in windows: set ORACLE_SID=ASM1 ) > sqlplus sys/password > > Yechiel Adar > Israel > > > On 12/05/2011 00:31, Nadeem M. Khan wrote: >> >> $ sqlplus sys/XXXX@ASM1 as sysdba > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l