How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16662: network timeout when contacting a database?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16662: network timeout when contacting a database with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16662: network timeout when contacting a database

Reason for the Error ORA-16662: network timeout when contacting a database

In response to the issued command, the Data Guard broker attempted to contact a database in the Data Guard configuration. That attempt failed because there was no response from that database after the period of time specified by the CommunicationTimeout configuration property.

How to fix the Error ORA-16662: network timeout when contacting a database ?

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

Check the Data Guard broker log for the details of the failure. Fix the problem and try the command again.