Dog Days of Summer. Oracle 11.2.0.3.5 on RHEL 6.3 ASM I'm trying to restore a single node of a RAC instance for DR practice. The controlfile is on tape. I started the instance in nomount, connected to the target with RMAN, set the DBID, allocated a channel and told it to go out and get the specified controlfile. Here's what I got: RMAN-12001: could not open channel c1 RMAN-10008: could not create channel context RMAN-10003: unable to connect to target database ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor Okay. Here's the listener status: Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521)) STATUS of the LISTENER ------------------------ Alias LISTENER Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production Start Date 08-AUG-2013 12:00:10 Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 18 min. 57 sec Trace Level off Security ON: Local OS Authentication SNMP OFF Listener Parameter File /oracle/grid/11203/network/admin/listener.ora Listener Log File /opt/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/rchr1p01/listener/alert/log.xml Listening Endpoints Summary... (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=LISTENER))) (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=175.1.2.225)(PORT=1521))) (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=175.1.2.226)(PORT=1521))) Services Summary... Service "+ASM" has 1 instance(s). Instance "+ASM1", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Service "P00" has 1 instance(s). Instance "P0001", status *BLOCKED*, has 1 handler(s) for this service... The command completed successfully I've tried a number of approaches to try to fix this, and none have worked. Googled and MOS'd. Even did the (UR=A) thing. Missing something. I'm seriously open for ideas here. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l