Oracle Error ORA-16662: network timeout when contacting a database

Oracle Error Message

ORA-16662: network timeout when contacting a database

Reason for the Error

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.

Solution

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