Diagnosing an ASM space issue for a primary and a standby database instance with external redundancy.

I've received an alert from Enterprise manager saying "Disk Group DATA_SID requires rebalance because at least one disk
is low on space". My colleague who I would go to with this question is unavailable, so this is a learning opportunity
for me. So far google and Oracle documentation have provided lots of information, but nothing that answers my questions.
I've run the following query on both the primary and standby databases ASM instances:
select name, disk_number, sector_size,os_mb, total_mb, free_mb, redundancy from v$asm_disk;
On the primary I get 4810M Free space and 18431M Total Space
on the standby I get 1248M Free space and 18431M Total Space -- this is the one that complained via OEM
When I run the following query in the database instance:
select sum(bytes)/1024/1024 MB from dba_segments;
I get 3736.75M as a result.
My questions are:
1. Will OEM's suggestion to rebalance the disk actually help in this situation since the instance is set up with external redundancy?
2. If I've got 18G of space and only 3.7G of data, why is OEM complaining?
3. How can I reclaim what I presume is allocated but unused space in my problem disk group?
4. How can I determine what extra data the standby has that the primary doesn't since both have the same total space allocation, but different amounts of free space?

Thank you for the reply. That link is very good.
We are an 11.1 version of our database. Linus is OEL 5.6.
So, looking at the portion of the link that refers to 'Add Standby database and Instances to the OCR' - If we use SRVCTL to give the STANDBY the role of ‘physical_standby’ and the start option of ‘mount’, what effect will that have if the STANDBY becomes our PRIMARY?
Would these database settings need to be modified manually with SRVCTL each time?
We understand why the instance is not starting when the node is rebooted, we are looking for a best practice of how this is implemented.
Thank you.

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Solaris 9
oracle 9i (9.2.0.8)
upgrade to 10g (10.2.0.3)
Hi,
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To Who this may concern at TOP LEVEL AT Creative's Board It's come to my attention to a very serious issue From Creative,and the story starts from here.
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Database :10.2.0.4, 11.2.0.1
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A ----------------> Primary database
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Please consider Flashback.
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*.log_archive_dest_3='SERVICE=STANDBY2 LGWR ASYNC VALID_FOR=(ONLINE_LOGFILES,PRIMARY_ROLE) DB_UNIQUE_NAME=STANDBY2'
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*.LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_STATE_3=DEFER
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*.LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_STATE_3=DEFER
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