How to fix the Oracle error ORA-15124: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid alias name?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-15124: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid alias name with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-15124: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid alias name

Reason for the Error ORA-15124: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid alias name

A file name was specified which did not contain a valid ASM alias name. The ASM alias name, if present, follows immediately after the diskgroup name, in place of the ASM file number. It must be preceeded by a slash, start with an alphabetic character, and consist of up to 48 characters which are alphabetic, numeric, or the characters ‘$’, ‘_’, ‘-‘, or ‘#”. A space can separate two parts of an alias name.

How to fix the Error ORA-15124: ASM file name ‘string’ contains an invalid alias name ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Correct the file name specification.