Issue: Alert log says ORA-12543 and ORA-1034 ================= Primary Alert Logs ================ PING[ARC1]: Heartbeat failed to connect to standby 'STANDBY'. Error is 12543. Error 1034 received logging on to the standby FAL[server, ARCa]: Error 1034 creating remote archivelog file 'STANDBY' FAL[server, ARCa]: FAL archive failed, see trace file. ARCH: FAL archive failed. Archiver continuing ================= Standby Alert Log ================ Archiver process freed from errors. No longer stopped Fri Aug 28 09:01:17 2015 ARCH: Archival stopped, error occurred. Will continue retrying ========= Solution ========== 1. Check the standby side archive destination, clean up archives if any 2. On Primary switch logfile and see arch is proceeding 3. If not defer the destination and enable back