Grid control switchover issue

Question

Hi,
I have carried out the following
a 10g database install on 2 servers
enabled dataguard between them so I have a primary and a standby database.
I then installed Grid Control onto each server using the opetion to install into an existing database. this worked.
On the standby server opmnctl is shutdown and the database is a PHYSICAL STANDBY.
when I do a dataguard switchover I see the standby database is now the primary. I restart opmnctl and go to the web browser to look at Grid Control.
The issue I have is that Grid Control, even though it is on the standby server, points to the primary server. How can I change this behaviour
When I first started Grid Control I had to perform the following actions
[oracle@griddg bin]$ ./emctl status emkey
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 Grid Control
Copyright (c) 1996, 2007 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Please enter repository password:
The Em Key exists in the Management Repository, but is not configured properly or is corrupted in the file system.
Configure the Em Key by running "emctl config emkey -repos".
[oracle@griddg bin]$ ./emctl config emkey -repos
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 Grid Control
Copyright (c) 1996, 2007 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Please enter repository password:
The Em Key has been configured successfully.
after this gridcontrol was able to start but points to the wrong host.
rgds
alan

Answer 1

hi,
the steps I took are as follows
1 - precreate a database on the primary and standby.
2 - configure the tnsnames and listener files so that the databases can talk to each other
3 - create a standby control file from the primary database.
4 - copy all database files from the primary to the standby
5 - copy the standby controlfile to the standby
6 - start the primary database
7 - start the standby database but only mounted, check database_role from v$database; it should be physical standby
8 - install Grid Control on the primary server with the option to install onto an existing database. Complete this installation.
9 - Install Grid Control onto the standby server with the option to install onto an existing database. Complete the installation and then carry out an 'opmnctl stopall'
10 - all being well Grid Control should now show both hosts and databases.
11 - create a dataguard configuration from within GC
The standby database cannot be discovered correctly in GC and this must be because it is in a mount state, not sure what to do about this. This then meant that I had to carry out a switchover from the command line. I am just testing this now and will post back when complete.
regards
Alan