Problem discovering 9.2.0 physical standby database in 10GR1 OEM

We have a Dataguard test setup in our company which was done using 9.2.0 OEM consisting of two 9.2.0 databases(one primary and another physical standby).
I could get the 10GR1 agent discover the primary database properly, but couldnot discover the physical standby database? The 10GR1 agent on the remote host is running fine, but just not discovers the database that is in physical standby mode and running fine.
Any suggestions???

Have you tried manually adding the standby?
Note that in grid, in the monitoring configuation screen, use the sys as sysdba account, dbsnmp doesn't have enough privileges.
Bazza

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Problem in recover physical standby database(Data Guard) by rman

Hello to all
I have created a physical standby database ,I want make backup of it by rman and when I lose it's datafile I can restore it ,making backup and restore is fine but in recovery I encounter some problem
scenarios is follow
1- In rman I create a backup of standby database by this command:
backup database plus archivelog delete all input;
2- I run this comman in rman for recover standby database
run{
2> set until scn 1392701;
3> restore database;
4> recover database;
5> }
(1392701 is extracted from this query "SELECT MAX(NEXT_CHANGE#)+1 UNTIL_SCN FROM V$LOG_HISTORY LH,
V$DATABASE DB WHERE LH.RESETLOGS_CHANGE#=DB.RESETLOGS_CHANGE# AND LH.RESETLOGS_TIME =
DB.RESETLOGS_TIME;" "http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14239/rman.htm")
but RMAN result is like this:
executing command: SET until clause
Starting restore at 13-DEC-08
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backupset restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from
backup set
restoring datafile 00001 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/system01.dbf
restoring datafile 00002 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/undotbs01.dbf
restoring datafile 00003 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/sysaux01.dbf
restoring datafile 00004 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/users01.dbf
restoring datafile 00005 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/example01.dbf
restoring datafile 00006 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/users02.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /home/oracle/backup/0ek24dt4_1_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
piece handle=/home/oracle/backup/0ek24dt4_1_1
tag=TAG20081213T042506
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:01:07
Finished restore at 13-DEC-08
Starting recover at 13-DEC-08
using channel ORA_DISK_1
starting media recovery
archive log thread 1 sequence 116 is already on disk as file /u01/app/oracle/oradata/archive/1_116_666786084.arc
archive log thread 1 sequence 117 is already on disk as file /u01/app/oracle/oradata/archive/1_117_666786084.arc
archive log filename=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/archive/1_116_666786084.arc thread=1 sequence=116
archive log filename=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/archive/1_117_666786084.arc thread=1 sequence=117
unable to find archive log
archive log thread=1 sequence=118
RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 12/13/2008 05:14:13
RMAN-06054: media recovery requesting unknown log: thread 1
seq 118 lowscn 1392700
3- then I decline 1392701 to 1392700 and i run this command
run{
2> set until scn 1392700;
3> restore database ;
4> recover database;
5> }
executing command: SET until clause
Starting restore at 13-DEC-08
using channel ORA_DISK_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: starting datafile backupset restore
channel ORA_DISK_1: specifying datafile(s) to restore from
backup set
restoring datafile 00001 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/system01.dbf
restoring datafile 00002 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/undotbs01.dbf
restoring datafile 00003 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/sysaux01.dbf
restoring datafile 00004 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/users01.dbf
restoring datafile 00005 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/example01.dbf
restoring datafile 00006 to /u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/users02.dbf
channel ORA_DISK_1: reading from backup piece /home/oracle/backup/0ek24dt4_1_1
channel ORA_DISK_1: restored backup piece 1
piece handle=/home/oracle/backup/0ek24dt4_1_1 tag=TAG20081213T042506
channel ORA_DISK_1: restore complete, elapsed time: 00:01:08
Finished restore at 13-DEC-08
Starting recover at 13-DEC-08
using channel ORA_DISK_1
starting media recovery
archive log thread 1 sequence 116 is already on disk as
file /u01/app/oracle/oradata/archive/1_116_666786084.arc
archive log thread 1 sequence 117 is already on disk as
file /u01/app/oracle/oradata/archive/1_117_666786084.arc
archive log filename=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/archive/1_116_666786084.arc thread=1
sequence=116archive log
filename=/u01/app/oracle/oradata/archive/1_117_666786084.arc
thread=1 sequence=117Oracle Error:
ORA-01547: warning: RECOVER succeeded but OPEN RESETLOGS
would get error below
ORA-01152: file 1 was not restored from a sufficiently old backup
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/system01.dbf'
media recovery complete, elapsed time: 00:00:10
Finished recover at 13-DEC-08
4- if I run
run{
restore database;
recover database;
I will recieve that error of step 2 (RMAN-06054: media recovery requesting unknown log: thread 1
seq 118 lowscn 1392700)
5- if I just restore the database and I don't perform recovery by rman and I restart redo apply all thing seem fine
but in opening database I'll recieve ORA-01152: file 1 was not restored from a sufficiently old backup
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/system01.dbf' error)
do you know what is problem
thanks
Edited by: ARKH on Dec 12, 2008 11:06 PM

hi
I myself have found the solution , when I recover the standby database
it do recovery but at the end of recovery it raise the error(RMAN-06054: media recovery requesting unknown log: thread 1
seq 118 lowscn 1392700) but if I begain redo apply before open the database
and I wait till all redo apply process start and communication between the
standby database and the primary database start, then I can
open the standby database and no error will raise
but if befor restarting redo apply I open the database I'll recieve the
ORA-01152: file 1 was not restored from a sufficiently old backup
ORA-01110: data file 1: '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/sari/system01.dbf' error
thanks

Physical standby database standby redo log problem

Hello
We have a physical standby database , I've created some standby redo log files but my problem is that they aren't used,
their status in v$stanby_log view is UNASSIGNED
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while when I run "alter system switch logfile" in the primary database it transfer redo logs to the physsical standby database
and archive log file will be created in standby database
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3                   0                   524288000                   UNASSIGNED
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Hello Anurag
Thank you for your reply
I have found some issue in the standby database alert_log too , in the standby database alert_log it has been written:
RFS[782]: Assigned to RFS process 3919
RFS[782]: Identified database type as 'physical standby'
Primary database is in MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY mode
Standby controlfile consistent with primary
Primary database is in MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY mode
Standby controlfile consistent with primary
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Sun Jan 31 13:59:43 2010
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ORA-16086: standby database does not contain available standby log files
Sun Jan 31 13:59:48 2010
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Sun Jan 31 13:59:50 2010
and the context "/u01/app/oracle/admin/tehrep/udump/tehrep_rfs_3919.trc" is below :
+/u01/app/oracle/admin/tehrep/udump/tehrep_rfs_3919.trc+
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
System name:    Linux
Node name:      linserver2.com
Release:        2.6.9-42.ELsmp
Version:        #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006
Machine:        i686
Instance name: tehrep
Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1
Oracle process number: 58
Unix process pid: 3919, image: [email protected]
*** SERVICE NAME:() 2010-01-31 13:59:43.865
*** SESSION ID:(109.1225) 2010-01-31 13:59:43.865
KCRRFLAS
KCRRSNPS
No space in recovery area for active standby redo logs
The primary database is operating in MAXIMUM PROTECTION
or MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY mode, and the standby database
does not contain adequate disk space in the recovery area
to safely archive the contents of the standby redo logfiles.
ORA-16086: standby database does not contain available standby log files
when I saw this line "No space in recovery area for active standby redo logs" I thought that STANDBY_ARCHIVE_DEST parameter points where that there is no enough space , but when I consider I found out that points a directory on disk a "sda" that has enough space , I don't know what that means
by the way, at below I've written a section of the primary database alert_log context and "lgwr" trace file around Sun Jan 31 13:30:34 2010
alert_log :
ORA-16086: standby database does not contain available standby log files
Sun Jan 31 13:30:34 2010
LGWR: Failed to archive log 7 thread 1 sequence 6512 (16086)
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 6512
Current log# 7 seq# 6512 mem# 0: /disks/sdb/tehrep/redo71.log
Current log# 7 seq# 6512 mem# 1: /disks/sdd/tehrep/redo72.log
LNSc started with pid=53, OS id=11451
Sun Jan 31 13:36:34 2010
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/admin/tehrep/bdump/tehrep_lgwr_3692.trc:
ORA-16086: standby database does not contain available standby log files
Sun Jan 31 13:36:34 2010
LGWR: Failed to archive log 5 thread 1 sequence 6513 (16086)
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 6513
Current log# 5 seq# 6513 mem# 0: /disks/sdb/tehrep/redo51.log
Current log# 5 seq# 6513 mem# 1: /disks/sdd/tehrep/redo52.log
*/u01/app/oracle/admin/tehrep/bdump/tehrep_lgwr_3692.trc file :*
Error 16086 creating standby archive log file at host '(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=linserver2.com
+)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=tehrep_XPT.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=tehrep)(SERVER=dedicated)))'+
*** 2010-01-31 13:30:34.712 60679 kcrr.c
LGWR: Attempting destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_3 network reconnect (16086)
*** 2010-01-31 13:30:34.712 60679 kcrr.c
LGWR: Destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_3 network reconnect abandoned
ORA-16086: standby database does not contain available standby log files
*** 2010-01-31 13:30:34.712 60679 kcrr.c
LGWR: Error 16086 creating archivelog file '(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=linserver2.com)(PORT=1521
+)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=tehrep_XPT.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=tehrep)(SERVER=dedicated)))'+
*** 2010-01-31 13:30:34.712 58941 kcrr.c
kcrrfail: dest:3 err:16086 force:0 blast:1
Receiving message from LNSc
*** 2010-01-31 13:30:34.718 55444 kcrr.c
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NetServer pid:11196
*** 2010-01-31 13:30:38.718 55616 kcrr.c
upidhs done status 0
*** 2010-01-31 13:36:31.062
LGWR: Archivelog for thread 1 sequence 6513 will NOT be compressed
*** 2010-01-31 13:36:31.062 53681 kcrr.c
+Initializing NetServer[LNSc] for dest=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=linserver2.com)(PORT=1521)))(CO+
NNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=tehrep_XPT.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=tehrep)(SERVER=dedicated))) mode SYNC
LNSc is not running anymore.
New SYNC LNSc needs to be started
Waiting for subscriber count on LGWR-LNSc channel to go to zero
Subscriber count went to zero - time now is <01/31/2010 13:36:31>
Starting LNSc ...
Waiting for LNSc to initialize itself
*** 2010-01-31 13:36:34.116 53972 kcrr.c
+Netserver LNSc [pid 11451] for mode SYNC has been initialized+
Performing a channel reset to ignore previous responses
+Successfully started LNSc [pid 11451] for dest (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=linserver2.com)(PORT=1+
+521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=tehrep_XPT.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=tehrep)(SERVER=dedicated))) mode SYNC ocis=0x0xb648db48+
*** 2010-01-31 13:36:34.116 54475 kcrr.c
+Making upiahm request to LNSc [pid 11451]: Begin Time is <01/31/2010 13:36:31>. NET_TIMEOUT = <180> seconds+
Waiting for LNSc to respond to upiahm
*** 2010-01-31 13:36:34.266 54639 kcrr.c
upiahm connect done status is 0
Receiving message from LNSc
Receiving message from LNSc
Destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_3 is in STANDBY RESYNCHRONIZATION mode
Receiving message from LNSc

Problem creating physical Standby database with RMAN

Hi All
I am trying to learn oracle dataguard and as part of the process learning creating standby database.
Platform : Sun-Fire-V250 Sparc, Solaris 10
Database Version - Oracle 11R2
I am creating standby database on same server, so directory structure is different.
Following the instructions on Oracle site I managed to create a functional physical standby database. But I am not able to create standby database using RMAN. These are the steps that I followed-
1.Set up all necessary parameters on primary database as done while creating physical standby database manually, eg setting force logging, creating standby logs etc.
2.Edited parameter file on primary database as done while creating manual pysical standby database creation. Some of the changes done are-
On Primary Database:
*.FAL_CLIENT='orcl11020' #Primary database unique name
*.FAL_SERVER='stdby_11' #Standby database unique name
db_file_name_convert='/<dir>/oradata/stdby_11','/<dir>/oradata/orcl11020'
log_file_name_convert='/<dir>/oradata/stdby_11','/<dir>/oradata/orcl11020','/<dir>/oradata/stdby_11/redo_mem','/<dir>/oradata/orcl11020/redo_mem'
standby_file_management=auto
*.log_archive_config='DG_CONFIG=(orcl11020,stdby_11)'
*.log_archive_dest_1='LOCATION=/<dir>/flash_recovery_area/ORCL11020/archivelog
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*.log_archive_dest_2='SERVICE=stdby_11 LGWR ASYNC VALID_FOR=(ONLINE_LOGFILES,PRIMARY_ROLE) db_unique_name=stdby_11'
*.LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_STATE_1='ENABLE'
*.LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_STATE_2='ENABLE'
*.LOG_ARCHIVE_FORMAT='%t_%s_%r.arc'
*.LOG_ARCHIVE_MAX_PROCESSES=30
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*.control_files='/<dir>/oradata/stdby_11/stdby_11.ctl','/<dir>/fra_stdby/stdby_11/stdby_11.ctl'
*.db_name='orcl1102'
*.db_unique_name='stdby_11'
*.FAL_CLIENT='stdby_11'
*.FAL_SERVER='orcl11020'
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*.log_archive_dest_2='SERVICE=orcl11020 LGWR ASYNC VALID_FOR=(ONLINE_LOGFILES,PRIMARY_ROLE)
db_unique_name=orcl11020'
3. Add relevant information in tnsnames.ora and listener.ora files and then restart listener.
3. Created password file with same credential as primary database.
4.Up-to-date RMAN backup of primary database available.
5.Create standby controlfile with rman
While primary database s open (I tried with primary database in mount mode as well)-
$>rman catalog rman/paswd@rman target /
RMAN> BACKUP CURRENT CONTROLFILE FOR STANDBY;
6. Open a new terminal and startup standby database in nomount mode using parameter file created -
$>ORACLE_SID=stdby_11
$>export ORACLE_SID
$>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL>STARTUP NOMOUNT pfile='<location/initfilename.ora'
SQL>quit
$> rman AUXILIARY / target sys/passwd@orcl11020 catalog rman/passwd@rman
RMAN>DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE FOR STANDBY DORECOVER;
RMAN finishes without error but archive logs are not being tranported. Looking at the log, following caught my eye-
Error 1017 received logging on to the standby
Check that the primary and standby are using a password file
and remote_login_passwordfile is set to SHARED or EXCLUSIVE,
and that the SYS password is same in the password files.
returning error ORA-16191
FAL[client, ARC2]: Error 16191 connecting to orcl11020 for fetching gap sequence
Errors in file /<>dir>/diag/rdbms/stdby_11/stdby_11/trace/stdby_11_arc2_24321.trc:
ORA-16191: Primary log shipping client not logged on standby
Errors in file /<dir>/diag/rdbms/stdby_11/stdby_11/trace/stdby_11_arc2_24321.trc:
ORA-16191: Primary log shipping client not logged on standby
So on both primary and standby I confirmed
SQL> show parameter remote_login_passwordfile
NAME TYPE VALUE
remote_login_passwordfile string EXCLUSIVE
To make double sure that password files are same, I shutdown both databases, delete password files and recreated with same credentials.
Password files are called - orapworcl11020 and orapwstdby_11
Can someone guide me where thisngs are going wrong here please.

Not sure if I understood it clearly.
SELECT * FROM V$ARCHIVE_GAP;
returns no rows so there is no gap.
But could you please explain me the result of the previous query. To catch up again, on standby when I check
SELECT SEQUENCE#,APPLIED FROM V$ARCHIVED_LOG
SEQUENCE# APPLIED
75 NO
74 NO
76 NO
77 NO
I understand that though archive files have been copied across but they are not applied yet.
On primary when I give your query -
SELECT name as STANDBY,SEQUENCE#,applied, completion_time
2 FROM v$archived_log
3 where dest_id=2
4 and sequence# BETWEEN 74 and 80;
I get -
STANDBY SEQUENCE# APPLIED COMPLETIO
stdby_11 74 YES 28-JUN-11
stdby_11 75 YES 28-JUN-11
stdby_11 76 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 77 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 78 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 79 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 80 YES 29-JUN-11
stdby_11 75 NO 07-JUL-11
stdby_11 74 NO 07-JUL-11
stdby_11 76 NO 07-JUL-11
stdby_11 77 NO 07-JUL-11
stdby_11 78 NO 07-JUL-11
I have intentionally given
sequence# BETWEEN 74 and 80
because I know in the current incarnaion of the database, max sequence is 78.
So my understanding is, the rows between 28-29 June are from previous incarnation, correct me if I am wrong
Archive files of the current incarnation, since I successfully created standby database are shipped but yet to be applied - am I right?
Then my final question is, when will these archives be applied to standby database?
I am sorry to ask too many questions but I am just trying to understand how it all works.
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Problem with data guard Creating a Physical Standby Database turorial

There is a tutorial of Creating a data guard Physical Standby Database:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/11gr1_db/ha/dataguard/physstby/physstdby.htm
I tried to install it on two servers. One for primary database second for physical standby.
I have error on C. Creating the standby database over the network, action #6:
"On the standby system, set the ORACLE_SID environment variable to your <physical standby SID> (i.e. orclsby1) and start the instance in NOMOUNT mode with the text initialization parameter file."
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C:\>sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Thu May 21 16:28:10 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
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On Windhose for every instance a service must have been created using the oradim command.
Oracle tutorials are usually Unix-centric, as Windhose is an odd man out, so they don't discuss that bit.
'Kindly do the needful' and create the service prior to starting the instance in nomount mode
Hint: oradim is documented and has a help=y clause.
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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
Experts: those who do read documentation

Problem in switchover to physical standby database

Hi All,
I am doing switchover from primary to physical standby database. Physical standby is in 'managed recovery' mode using real time apply and is in mount mode. I executed alter database commit to switchover to physical standby with session shutdown command. Now i am waiting for standby mrp to exit after processing eor record, but it seems mrp was hanged.
Below is the content from standby database:
Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 5 Seq 620 Reading mem 0
Mem# 0: /oracle/app/oracle/dbrac/th1-redo5a.log
Resetting standby activation ID 749049115 (0x2ca5951b)
Media Recovery End-Of-Redo indicator encountered
Media Recovery Continuing
Media Recovery Waiting for thread 1 sequence 621
Archived Log entry 14 added for thread 1 sequence 620 ID 0x2ca5951b dest 1:
Need some help to resolve.
Thanks
Sandy.

Hello;
After after you issue ( successfully ) a :
alter database commit to switchover to physical standby with session shutdownYou need to :
Shutdown the former primary and mount as a standby databaseCheck out my step by step :
http://www.visi.com/~mseberg/data_guard/Data_Guard_switchover.html
Read everything ( all the steps ) before you proceed.
Best Regards
mseberg

SQL exception during creation of a physical standby database with EM

Version: EM Oracle 10.2.5 (agents running, repository running, primary db running, all targets visible and reachable with EM)
I try to create a physical standby database with the enterprise manager and each time the process is aborted with a SQL exception during the preparation of the job by the EM. I have added a part of the OMs log containing the error at the end of the excerpt.
=============
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2010-04-29 16:02:32,823 [Thread-28] ERROR jobs.dbclone submitJobPreparation.3501 - DBCloneObject.submitJobPreparation(): Exception: java.lang.Exception: Während der Vorbereitung des Jobs ist eine SQL Exception aufgetreten. Um das Problem zu diagnostizieren, legen Sie das Agent Perl-Skript-Tracing auf DEBUG fest und wiederholen den Vorgang
2010-04-29 16:02:32,823 [Thread-28] ERROR jobs.dbclone submitDBCloneJob.3716 - DBCloneObject.submitDBCloneJob(): Exception: Während der Vorbereitung des Jobs ist eine SQL Exception aufgetreten. Um das Problem zu diagnostizieren, legen Sie das Agent Perl-Skript-Tracing auf DEBUG fest und wiederholen den Vorgang
2010-04-29 16:02:37,496 [EMUI_16_02_37_/console/database/dataguard/create] ERROR em.dataguard onEvent.1243 - CreateConfigController: Exception: oracle.sysman.db.dg.util.VxxStandbyException: Während der Vorbereitung des Jobs ist eine SQL Exception aufgetreten. Um das Problem zu diagnostizieren, legen Sie das Agent Perl-Skript-Tracing auf DEBUG fest und wiederholen den Vorgang
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I have set the agent perl script tracing to DEBUG, but can't find any reason, why the job preparation failed.
Has anyone an idea why the job cannot be prepared? Thanks in advance for investigation :-)

Can you please tell me how can i see data gaurd on EM..
I have oracle 11gR1..i have implemmented primary as well standby database..
I have already started EM but i have no idea where to find datagaurd option..or how to create standdby db using EM..
You got error that means u did it using EM..how can i do it on EM

Create ONLINE logfile in physical standby database

We have created a physical standby database with rman duplicate command on a remote server
"duplicate target database for standby dorecover nofilenamecheck"
When I see the standby server...Online logfiles are not created however its relevant entries are there in V$LOG and V$LOGFILE views.
I guess it is the default behaviour of duplicate command in RMAN and we can not specify LOGFILE clause when we create standby database.
Now the problem is we could not drop the online logfile on standby database since it's status is "CURRENT", "ACTIVE".
Since the ONLINE LOGFILE are not actually created , "ALTER DATABASE CLEAR LOGFILE GROUP " command returns with error as it could not find the file in the server.
So How we can drop the current/active online logfile and add new ones in standby db?

I'm assuming you have physical standby. Here are step I did in the past.
1) create a backup control file
2) bring the database back using the "recreate control file" it the trace file BUT you need to remove or comment out the line that has the corrupt or missing redo log file. And don't forget to add the tempfile after you recreate the controlfile
example:
alter database backup controlfile to trace;
STARTUP NOMOUNT
CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "ORCL" NORESETLOGS FORCE LOGGING ARCHIVELOG
MAXLOGFILES 16
MAXLOGMEMBERS 3
MAXDATAFILES 100
MAXINSTANCES 8
MAXLOGHISTORY 292
LOGFILE
GROUP 1 '/oracledata/orcl/redo01.log' SIZE 200M,
GROUP 2 '/oracledata/orcl/redo02.log' SIZE 200M,
GROUP 3 '/oracledata/orcl/redo03.log' SIZE 200M,
# GROUP 3 '/oracledata/orcl/redo03.log' SIZE 200M
-- STANDBY LOGFILE
-- GROUP 10 '/oracledata/orcl/redostdby04.log' SIZE 200M,
-- GROUP 11 '/oracledata/orcl/redostdby05.log' SIZE 200M
DATAFILE
'/oracledata/orcl/system01.dbf',
'/oracledata/orcl/undotbs01.dbf',
'/oracledata/orcl/sysaux01.dbf',
'/oracledata/orcl/users01.dbf'
CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P1
If you just want to add the standby redo log then using this command.
alter database add standby logfile
'/<your_path>/redostdby01.log' size 200M reuse,

How to create 11.2.0.2 physical standby database from 2 node RAC (11.2.0.2)

Hi,
Can any one please help me How to manually create 11.2.0.2 standalone physical standby database from 2 node RAC (11.2.0.2) database which is running in RHEL5 and ASM plugged in.
DB : 11.2.0.2
OS : RHEL5
RMAN duplicate is causing problem with network and we decided to go for manual creation of the same.
Thanks in Advance..

Hi;
Can any one please help me How to manually create 11.2.0.2 standalone physical standby database from 2 node RAC (11.2.0.2) database which is running in RHEL5 and ASM plugged in.
DB : 11.2.0.2
OS : RHEL5I had similar issue, what i did
1. Used source oracle_home on standby server
2. Created new asm instance and use same naming
3. I took RMAN full backup on source and move it to target
4. I edit initora file remove RAC setting and restore db(also edited listener file)
Regard
Helios

Issue on physical standby database

Hi
I've a problem on standby database.
I recently added a datafile on primary database, then I scp'ed the data file to physical standby database.On physical standby database I tried performing recovery.
I get following message in my alert log
WARNING! Recovering data file 88 from a fuzzy file. If not the current file
it might be an online backup taken without entering the begin backup command.
ORA-279 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE RECOVER standby database ...
how can I fix this now.
We keep physical standby database 2 day behind, and apply logs manually.
Physical standby database is maintained manually.
Could someone help me in getting out of this problem.
Oracle 9.2.0.7
solaris

Versus keeping it in manual mode, you can specify a time "delay" for the application of the logs:
From http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14239/log_apply.htm#i1022811
6.2.2 Specifying a Time Delay for the Application of Archived Redo Log Files
In some cases, you may want to create a time lag between the time when redo data is received from the primary site and when it is applied to the standby database. You can specify a time interval (in minutes) to protect against the application of corrupted or erroneous data to the standby database. When you set a DELAY interval, it does not delay the transport of the redo data to the standby database. Instead, the time lag you specify begins when the redo data is completely archived at the standby destination.
Note:
If you define a delay for a destination that has real-time apply enabled, the delay is ignored.
Specifying a Time Delay
You can set a time delay on primary and standby databases using the DELAY=minutes attribute of the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_n initialization parameter to delay applying archived redo log files to the standby database. By default, there is no time delay. If you specify the DELAY attribute without specifying a value, then the default delay interval is 30 minutes.
Canceling a Time Delay
You can cancel a specified delay interval as follows:
For physical standby databases, use the NODELAY keyword of the RECOVER MANAGED STANDBY DATABASE clause:
SQL> ALTER DATABASE RECOVER MANAGED STANDBY DATABASE NODELAY;
For logical standby databases, specify the following SQL statement:
SQL> ALTER DATABASE START LOGICAL STANDBY APPLY NODELAY;
These commands result in log apply services immediately beginning to apply archived redo log files to the standby database, before the time interval expires. Also, see:
Section 12.8, "Using a Physical Standby Database with a Time Lag"
Oracle Database SQL Reference for the DELAY attribute of the ALTER DATABASE RECOVER MANAGED STANDBY DATABASE statement

Logical standby database to physical standby database

I already start my logical standby database and I want to return it again to physical standby database. So what should I do?

>
The "may be" is because I have tested flashback of a physical standby to before resetlogs, but not a logical standby.
>
A physical standby keeps the DBID of the primary - a logical standby does not. That is exactly the problem that restricts the reconversion into physical from logical, and you did not encounter that problem.
>
I haven't used "keep identity" but from what I read it relates to "convert to physical" not "flashback database".
>
Exactly. And that is what the OP wants to do: convert to physical (from logical).
You mentioned that this might be possible with flashback.
Problem: During the conversion from physical to logical, the DBID gets changed unless you specify (in 11g) KEEP IDENTITY. This would make it possible to reconvert into phyiscal from logical.
In short: If there is no solution for the changed DBID of the logical standby in order to flashback it into physical as you suggested, then it is not possible .
When I saw your first answer, I thought that you might have a solution in mind in order to solve that obvious problem. Sorry for having bothered you.
Kind regards
Uwe
http://uhesse.wordpress.com

Starting Physically Standby Database in Mount Mode

Hi All
I have configured Data Guard using Oracle 10g 10.2.0.4.0 (64 bits) on Windows 2008 Server (64 bits) Release 2 Enterprise.
Data guard configuration was OK as the message from "Enable Configuration DG1" was "SUCCESS" for both
Primary and Standby Database. I have also set both Databases and TNS to start Automatically whenever Windows Starts.
The Problem is as long as the Standby Server is running, there is No issue.
But when we Restarts the Backup Server, Physically Standby Database is Started and TNS is also Started,
but Archives are not received until I physically do the following steps so that it can received the Archives.
SQL> startup nomount;
SQL> alter database mount standby database;
SQL> alter database recover managed standby database disconnect from session;
Is there a way to start Physically Standby Database in Mount mode when windows started.
Regards
Thunder2777

Hi Mihael
I have created 2 files. 1 Bat file 2nd sql file which contains all commands as written above.
When I execute start.bat file
1. set ORACLE_HOME=C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1
2. set ORACLE_SID=UMISBK
3. sqlplus / [email protected]
1 & 2 executed properly. At 3 it just display SQL help for login as shown below.
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Usage 1: sqlplus -H | -V
    -H             Displays the SQL*Plus version and the usage help.
    -V             Displays the SQL*Plus version.
Usage 2: sqlplus [ [<option>] [<logon>] [<start>] ]
<option> is: [-C <version>] [-L] [-M "<options>"] [-R <level>] [-S]
It Did Not execute start.sql file to excute sql commands.
Regards
Thunder2777

Physical standby database implementation

Hi!
I am trying to implement a Physical standby database, I have already done it with both the primary and secondary in the same server and successfully shipped the logs and have it configured using Data Guard.
But Now I am trying to implement the Physical standby in a separate server, but the logs are not getting shipped, I am using Oracle 9i Enterprise edition. I have checked all the steps, but not able to find the reason, why the logs are not getting shipped to the standby.
Also I am not able to discover the Primary node from the Standby and I have Windows 2003 server in my standby and Windows XP Prof. in the Primary, Is this the reason, why my logs are not getting shipped?
Please help. Thanks in Advance.
Radhika

Hi!,
Thanks for ur response, I am posting my alert log here... can u please help me... I probably think it is the OS issue too... Your inputs are greatly appreciated...
Thanks
Radhika
Fri Feb 10 18:21:19 2006
Errors in file d:\oracle\admin\bsnl\bdump\bsnl_arc0_1668.trc:
ORA-12535: TNS:operation timed out
Dump file d:\oracle\admin\bsnl\bdump\alert_bsnl.log
Mon Feb 13 11:04:59 2006
ORACLE V9.2.0.1.0 - Production vsnsta=0
vsnsql=12 vsnxtr=3
Windows 2000 Version 5.2 Service Pack 1, CPU type 586
Mon Feb 13 11:04:59 2006
Starting ORACLE instance (normal)
LICENSE_MAX_SESSION = 0
LICENSE_SESSIONS_WARNING = 0
SCN scheme 2
Using log_archive_dest parameter default value
LICENSE_MAX_USERS = 0
SYS auditing is disabled
Starting up ORACLE RDBMS Version: 9.2.0.1.0.
System parameters with non-default values:
processes = 150
timed_statistics = TRUE
shared_pool_size = 50331648
large_pool_size = 8388608
java_pool_size = 33554432
control_files = D:\oracle\oradata\BSNL\CONTROL01.CTL, D:\oracle\oradata\BSNL\CONTROL02.CTL, D:\oracle\oradata\BSNL\CONTROL03.CTL
db_block_size = 8192
db_cache_size = 25165824
compatible = 9.2.0.0.0
log_archive_start = TRUE
log_archive_dest_1 = location=D:\oracle\oradata\BSNL_LOG mandatory
log_archive_dest_2 = service=dbabsnl
log_archive_dest_state_2 = ENABLE
db_file_multiblock_read_count= 16
fast_start_mttr_target = 300
undo_management = AUTO
undo_tablespace = UNDOTBS1
undo_retention = 10800
remote_login_passwordfile= EXCLUSIVE
db_domain =
instance_name = BSNL
dispatchers = (PROTOCOL=TCP) (SERVICE=BSNLXDB)
job_queue_processes = 10
hash_join_enabled = TRUE
background_dump_dest = D:\oracle\admin\BSNL\bdump
user_dump_dest = D:\oracle\admin\BSNL\udump
core_dump_dest = D:\oracle\admin\BSNL\cdump
sort_area_size = 524288
db_name = BSNL
open_cursors = 300
star_transformation_enabled= FALSE
query_rewrite_enabled = FALSE
pga_aggregate_target = 25165824
aq_tm_processes = 1
PMON started with pid=2
DBW0 started with pid=3
LGWR started with pid=4
CKPT started with pid=5
SMON started with pid=6
RECO started with pid=7
CJQ0 started with pid=8
QMN0 started with pid=9
Mon Feb 13 11:05:07 2006
starting up 1 shared server(s) ...
starting up 1 dispatcher(s) for network address '(ADDRESS=(PARTIAL=YES)(PROTOCOL=TCP))'...
ARCH: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES
ARC0 started with pid=12
ARC0: Archival started
ARC1 started with pid=13
Mon Feb 13 11:05:08 2006
ARC1: Archival started
Mon Feb 13 11:05:09 2006
ARCH: STARTING ARCH PROCESSES COMPLETE
ARC1: Thread not mounted
Mon Feb 13 11:05:09 2006
ARC0: Thread not mounted
Mon Feb 13 11:05:10 2006
alter database mount exclusive
Mon Feb 13 11:05:16 2006
Successful mount of redo thread 1, with mount id 1399936614.
Mon Feb 13 11:05:16 2006
Database mounted in Exclusive Mode.
Completed: alter database mount exclusive
Mon Feb 13 11:05:16 2006
alter database open
Mon Feb 13 11:05:18 2006
Beginning crash recovery of 1 threads
Mon Feb 13 11:05:19 2006
Started first pass scan
Mon Feb 13 11:05:21 2006
Completed first pass scan
3956 redo blocks read, 68 data blocks need recovery
Mon Feb 13 11:05:21 2006
Started recovery at
Thread 1: logseq 18, block 9151, scn 0.0
Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 2 Seq 18 Reading mem 0
Mem# 0 errs 0: D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\BSNL\REDO02.LOG
Mon Feb 13 11:05:23 2006
Ended recovery at
Thread 1: logseq 18, block 13107, scn 0.967486
68 data blocks read, 68 data blocks written, 3956 redo blocks read
Crash recovery completed successfully
Mon Feb 13 11:05:28 2006
LGWR: Primary database is in CLUSTER CONSISTENT mode
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 19
Thread 1 opened at log sequence 19
Current log# 3 seq# 19 mem# 0: D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\BSNL\REDO03.LOG
Successful open of redo thread 1.
Mon Feb 13 11:05:33 2006
SMON: enabling cache recovery
Mon Feb 13 11:05:33 2006
ARC0: Evaluating archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 18
ARC0: Beginning to archive log 2 thread 1 sequence 18
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2: 'dbabsnl'
Mon Feb 13 11:05:36 2006
Undo Segment 1 Onlined
Undo Segment 2 Onlined
Undo Segment 3 Onlined
Undo Segment 4 Onlined
Undo Segment 5 Onlined
Undo Segment 6 Onlined
Undo Segment 7 Onlined
Undo Segment 8 Onlined
Undo Segment 9 Onlined
Undo Segment 10 Onlined
Successfully onlined Undo Tablespace 1.
Mon Feb 13 11:05:36 2006
SMON: enabling tx recovery
Mon Feb 13 11:05:36 2006
Database Characterset is WE8MSWIN1252
Mon Feb 13 11:05:47 2006
replication_dependency_tracking turned off (no async multimaster replication found)
Completed: alter database open
Mon Feb 13 11:05:55 2006
ARC0: Error 12535 Creating archive log file to 'dbabsnl'
Mon Feb 13 11:05:56 2006
Errors in file d:\oracle\admin\bsnl\bdump\bsnl_arc0_1596.trc:
ORA-12535: TNS:operation timed out
Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: 'D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\BSNL_LOG\ARC00018.001'
ARC0: Completed archiving log 2 thread 1 sequence 18

Physical standby database Version 11g Creation over grid control 10g

We are useing oracale 11g enterprise edition and want to create a physical standby database on another machine:
On primary host we've installed "standard database" and turned on archive log mode over em.
On the standby host we've installed only oracle without a database and without a listener.
On a third machine we've installed grid control and registered the primary and standby hosts. Using EM with Data Grid I'm attempting to create a Physical Standby on standby host. Everything is working except for the last part as noted here:
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Do Apr 3 11:21:17 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL> SQL> Bei einer nicht hochgefahrenen Instance angemeldet.
SQL> SQL> ORA-32004: obsolete and/or deprecated parameter(s) specified
ORACLE-Instance hochgefahren.
Total System Global Area 535662592 bytes
Fixed Size          1334380 bytes
Variable Size          167773076 bytes
Database Buffers     360710144 bytes
Redo Buffers          5844992 bytes
SQL>
Datenbank wurde geändert.
SQL> Verbindung zu Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options beendet
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\SYSTEM01.DBF' to 'c:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1\oradata\dg3\SYSTEM01.dbf'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: SELECT STATUS FROM V$DATAFILE WHERE NAME = 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\SYSTEM01.DBF'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\SYSAUX01.DBF' to 'c:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1\oradata\dg3\SYSAUX01.dbf'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: SELECT STATUS FROM V$DATAFILE WHERE NAME = 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\SYSAUX01.DBF'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\UNDOTBS01.DBF' to 'c:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1\oradata\dg3\UNDOTBS01.dbf'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: SELECT STATUS FROM V$DATAFILE WHERE NAME = 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\UNDOTBS01.DBF'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\USERS01.DBF' to 'c:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1\oradata\dg3\USERS01.dbf'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: SELECT STATUS FROM V$DATAFILE WHERE NAME = 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\USERS01.DBF'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\EXAMPLE01.DBF' to 'c:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1\oradata\dg3\EXAMPLE01.dbf'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: SELECT STATUS FROM V$DATAFILE WHERE NAME = 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\EXAMPLE01.DBF'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\REDO01.LOG' to 'c:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1\oradata\dg3\REDO01.log'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\REDO02.LOG' to 'c:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1\oradata\dg3\REDO02.log'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TTDB1\REDO03.LOG' to 'c:\oracle\product\11.1.0\db_1\oradata\dg3\REDO03.log'
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE CLEAR LOGFILE GROUP 1
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE CLEAR LOGFILE GROUP 2
dgcreate.DGrenameFiles: ALTER DATABASE CLEAR LOGFILE GROUP 3
dgcreate.DGgetRecoverySCN: SELECT MAX(NEXT_CHANGE#) FROM V$ARCHIVED_LOG
dgcreate.DGrecoverStby: ALTER DATABASE RECOVER AUTOMATIC FROM '%ORACLE_HOME%\RDBMS' STANDBY DATABASE UNTIL CHANGE 1061001
dgcreate.DGrecoverStby: ALTER DATABASE RECOVER CANCEL
dgcreate.DGrecoverStby: ALTER DATABASE OPEN READ ONLY
SQL Error: ORA-16004: Sciherungs-Datenbank muss wiederhergestellt werden
ORA-01152: Backup-Datei zum Wiederherstellen der Datei 1 war nicht alt genug
ORA-01110: Datendatei 1: 'C:\ORACLE\PRODUCT\11.1.0\DB_1\ORADATA\DG3\SYSTEM01.DBF' (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)
What is to do?
What mean's in this case:
"ORA-01152 file string was not restored from a sufficiently old backup
Cause: An incomplete recovery session was started, but an insufficient number of redo logs were applied to make the database consistent. This file is still in the future of the last redo log applied. The most likely cause of this message is forgetting to restore the file from backup before doing incomplete recovery.
Action: Apply additional redo log files until the database is consistent or restore the datafiles from an older backup and repeat recovery."

Thanks for your immediate reply,
but there's a problem: We don't create the standby database manually. The creation is done by data guard over grid control. And the "automatic" creation stopps at this point.
Unfortunatly we don't know, wich steps of a manuall standby database creation are done and wich steps are not done at this point.
The oracle documentation (for release 11g) to create a manuall standby database is "B28294-02". But there's no step 5 "alter database recover managed standby database disconnect from session". Do you mean step 4 of chapter 3.2.6?
Is there no way, to create a standby database automatically over grid control? Or do we have to do something else before creating the physical standby database? Perhaps we have to create a full backup after switching to archive log mode?

Physical standby database fail-over

Hi,
I am working on Oracle 10.2.0.3 on Solaris SPARC 64-bit.
I have a Dataguard configuration with a single Physical standby database that uses real time application. We had a major application upgrade yesterday and before the start of upgrade, we cancelled the media recovery and disabled the log_archive_dest_n so that it doesn't ship the archive logs to standby site. We left the dataguard configuration in this mode incase of a rollback.
Primary:
alter system set log_archive_dest_state_2='DEFER';
alter system switch logfile;
Standby:
alter database recover managed standby database cancel;Due to application upgrade induced problems we had to failover to the physical standby, which was not in sync with primary from yesterday. I used the following method to fail-over since i do not want to apply any redo from yesterday.
Standby:
alter database activate physical standby database;
alter database open;
shutdown immediate;
startupSo, after this step, the database was a stand alone database, which doesn't have any standby databases yet (but it still has log_archive_config parameter set and log_archive_dest_n parameters set but i have 'DEFER' the log_archive_dest_n pointing to the old primary). I have even changed the "archive log deletion policy to NONE"
RMAN> configure archivelog deletion policy to none;After the fail-over was completed, the log sequence started from Sequence 1. We cleared the FRA to make space for the new archive logs and started off a FULL database backup (backup incremental level 0 database plus archivelog delete input). The backup succeded but we got these alerts in the backup log that RMAN cannot delete the archivelogs.
RMAN-08137: WARNING: archive log not deleted as it is still neededMy question here is
1) Even though i have disabled the log_archive_dest_n parameters, why is RMAN not able to delete the archivelogs after backup when there is no standby database for this failed-over database?
2) Are all the old backups marked unusable after a fail-over is performed?
FYI... flashback database was not used in this case as it did not server our purpose.
Any information or documentation links would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Harris.

Thanks for the reply.
The FINISH FORCE works in some cases but if there is an archive gap (though it didn't report in our case), it might not work some times (DOCID: 846087.1). So, we followed the Switch-over & Fail-Over best practices where it mentioned about this "ACTIVE PHYSICAL STANDBY" for a fail-over if you intend not to apply any archivelogs. The process we followed is the Right one.
Anyhow, we got the issue resolved. Below is the resolution path.
1) Even though if you DEFER the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_STATE_N parameter's on the primary, there are some situations where the Primary database in a dataguard configuration where it will not delete the archive logs due to some SCN issues. This issue may or may not arise in all fail-over scenarios. If it does, then do the following checks
Follow DOCID: 803635.1, which talks about a PLSQL procedure to check for problematic SCN's in a dataguard configuration even though the physical standby databases are no available (i.e., if the dataguard parameters are set, log_archive_config, log_archive_dest_n='SERVICE=..." still set and even though corresponding LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_STATE_N parameters are DEFERRED).
If this procedure returns any rows, then the primary database is not able to delete the archivelogs because it is still thinking there is a standby database and trying to save the archive logs because of the SCN conflict.
So, the best thing to do is, remove the DG related parameters from the spfile (log_archive_config, log_archive_dest_n parameters).
After i made these changes, i ran a test backup using "backup archivelog all delete input", the archive logs got deleted after backup without any issues.
Thanks,
Harris.
Edited by: user11971589 on Nov 18, 2010 2:55 PM

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