While connecting to you catalog database, you might have got below error.
RMAN> connect target sys/oracle@testdb
connected to target database: testdb (DBID=3348549171)
RMAN> connect catalog rman_bt_tstdev_1/rman@oracat
connected to recovery catalog database
PL/SQL package RMAN_BT_TSTDEV_1.DBMS_RCVCAT version 11.02.00.03 in RCVCAT database is too old
To solve this issue, we need to upgrade the catalog also.
RMAN> upgrade catalog recovery catalog owner is RMAN_BT_TSTDEV_1 enter UPGRADE CATALOG command again to confirm catalog upgrade RMAN> upgrade catalog recovery catalog upgraded to version 12.01.00.01 DBMS_RCVMAN package upgraded to version 12.01.00.01 DBMS_RCVCAT package upgraded to version 12.01.00.01 [oracle@bt-tstdev-1]/oracle/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/network/admin# rman Recovery Manager: Release 12.1.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Oct 13 14:08:32 2015 Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. RMAN> connect target sys/oracle@testdb connected to target database: testdb (DBID=3348549171) RMAN> connect catalog rman_bt_tstdev_1/rman@oracat connected to recovery catalog database
