Logminer Fails With ORA-01284, ORA-00308

Problem Description:
Whenever you try to run the logminer in the mining database (different from source database. Source database is one in which redo or archived redo logs are generated and mining database is one in which you try to analysis those logs) to add logfile using DBMS_LOGMNR.ADD_LOGFILE it generates error ORA-01284, ORA-00308, ORA-27047.

SQL> EXECUTE DBMS_LOGMNR.ADD_LOGFILE( -
LOGFILENAME => '/export/home/oracle/o1_mf_1_61856_48637xkh_.arc', -
OPTIONS => DBMS_LOGMNR.NEW);
BEGIN DBMS_LOGMNR.ADD_LOGFILE( LOGFILENAME => '/export/home/oracle/o1_mf_1_61856_48637xkh_.arc', OPTIONS => DBMS_LOGMNR.NEW); END;

*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01284: file /export/home/oracle/o1_mf_1_61856_48637xkh_.arc cannot be
opened
ORA-00308: cannot open archived log
'/export/home/oracle/o1_mf_1_61856_48637xkh_.arc'
ORA-27047: unable to read the header block of file
Additional information: 2
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_LOGMNR", line 68
ORA-06512: at line 1

But if you see in your mining database hard disk the archived redo log file actually exist.
SQL> !ls -l /export/home/oracle/o1_mf_1_61856_48637xkh_.arc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oinstall 24671232 Jul 21 00:38 /export/home/oracle/o1_mf_1_61856_48637xkh_.arc

Cause of The Problem:
To be able to run oracle logminer there are several requirements. If the requirements are not satisfy logminer will not run successfully. One of the requirement to run logminer is both the source database and the mining database must be running on the same hardware platform.

The database block sizes of the analyzing instance and the log source database must also be the same.

If they are different then logminer will not work and working with it will produce error ORA-01284, ORA-00308, ORA-27047.

Solution of The problem:
Use the mining database as the same hardware platform as of source database. If you don't have same platform then it is not possible. In that case you can use source database for mining.

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