How to fix the Oracle error ORA-15564: contents of the replay directory provided to the workload replay client do not match with the replay directory provided to the database server?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-15564: contents of the replay directory provided to the workload replay client do not match with the replay directory provided to the database server with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-15564: contents of the replay directory provided to the workload replay client do not match with the replay directory provided to the database server

Reason for the Error ORA-15564: contents of the replay directory provided to the workload replay client do not match with the replay directory provided to the database server

The processed workload capture files given to the workload replay client directory did not match the contents of the replay directory given as input to DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPLAY.INITIALIZE_REPLAY.

How to fix the Error ORA-15564: contents of the replay directory provided to the workload replay client do not match with the replay directory provided to the database server ?

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

Provide the same processed workload capture files to both the database server and all the workload replay clients and restart the replay. If the same workload capture files were processed more than once, provide a copy of the latest processed workload capture files to all the workload replay clients and the database server.