• Article Type: General
• Product: MetaLib
• Product Version: 4

Description:
Receiving “Cannot connect to the data base: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach)” error in first step of target UE (upgrade express) after running MIK (Metalib Installation Kit).
Oracle10 and the meta4 database are already installed.

Resolution:
The m4_m tns name was not defined properly during the installation.

Therefore please change ORA_HOST to a fully qualified www.server.name when trying:

metalib@metalib4(m4_m):~/m4_m/metalib_conf>sqlplus $METALIB_ADMIN@$metalib_db
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Wed Apr 2 05:47:50 2008
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Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining Scoring Engine options

metalib_admin@META4> quit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining Scoring Engine options

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013