RMAN repository clean up

Hi,
I am having 10g db and backup policy uses RMAN.
Daily backup is taken by RMAN and my retention policy is default.
Now my total catalog db size is 12 GB,
but i want to remove entries before 1 months from repository because all the archives are already taken in backup and also applied to stand by db.
Is there any method to clean up RMAN repository ?
Thanks in advance

Viral,
This is what I do to reconcile the contents of the recovery catalog with the backup files on disk. Check out Oracle's documentation on RMAN commands before executing these commands.
Bill
$ su – oracle
$ export ORACLE_SID=<SID of target database>
$ rman rcvcat rman/<password>@<recovery catalog instance>
RMAN> connect target
RMAN> LIST EXPIRED BACKUP;
RMAN> CROSSCHECK BACKUP;
RMAN> LIST EXPIRED BACKUP;
RMAN> DELETE EXPIRED BACKUP;               (Respond “y” to delete objects.)
RMAN> LIST EXPIRED BACKUP;
RMAN> LIST BACKUP OF DATABASE;
RMAN> LIST BACKUP OF DATABASE SUMMARY;
RMAN> LIST EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL;
RMAN> CROSSCHECK ARCHIVELOG ALL;
RMAN> LIST EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL;
RMAN> DELETE EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL;     (Respond “y” to delete objects.)
RMAN> LIST EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL;
RMAN> LIST BACKUP OF ARCHIVELOG ALL;
RMAN> LIST BACKUP OF ARCHIVELOG ALL SUMMARY;

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