How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16535: Oracle Restart or Oracle Clusterware prevented completion of broker operation?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16535: Oracle Restart or Oracle Clusterware prevented completion of broker operation with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16535: Oracle Restart or Oracle Clusterware prevented completion of broker operation

Reason for the Error ORA-16535: Oracle Restart or Oracle Clusterware prevented completion of broker operation

The broker could not complete the operation because Oracle Restart (for single instance databases) or Oracle Clusterware (for RAC databases) could not stop services or instances on this database.

How to fix the Error ORA-16535: Oracle Restart or Oracle Clusterware prevented completion of broker operation ?

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

Check the Data Guard broker log file for more information and stop the appropriate services or instances using SRVCTL. Then retry the broker operation.