How to fix the Oracle error ORA-28545: error diagnosed by Net8 when connecting to an agent?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-28545: error diagnosed by Net8 when connecting to an agent with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-28545: error diagnosed by Net8 when connecting to an agent

Reason for the Error ORA-28545: error diagnosed by Net8 when connecting to an agent

An attempt to call an external procedure or to issue SQL to a non-Oracle system on a Heterogeneous Services database link failed at connection initialization. The error diagnosed by Net8 NCR software is reported separately.

How to fix the Error ORA-28545: error diagnosed by Net8 when connecting to an agent ?

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

Refer to the Net8 NCRO error message. If this isn’t clear, check connection administrative setup in tnsnames.ora and listener.ora for the service associated with the Heterogeneous Services database link being used, or with ‘extproc_connection_data’ for an external procedure call.