Question on redo log files at the standby

Oracle version: 10.2.0.5
Platform : AIX
We have 2 node RAC primary with 2 node RAC standby
Primary Instance1 named as cmapcp1
Primary Instance2 named as cmapcp2
Standby Instance1 named as cmapcp3
Standby Instance2 named as cmapcp4At standby side
SQL> show parameter log_file_name_convert
NAME                 TYPE                 VALUE
log_file_name_conver string               cmapcp1, cmapcp3, cmapcp2, cmapcp4
Despite the value set for log_file_name_convert, I don't see any change in names of Online and Standby redo logs at the Standby site.
-- From primary
SQL> select member,type from v$logfile;
MEMBER                                             TYPE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log01.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log02.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log03.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log04.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log05.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log06.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log11.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log12.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log13.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log14.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log15.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log16.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log17.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log18.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log19.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log20.dbf             STANDBY
16 rows selected.-- From standby
SQL> select member,type from v$logfile;
MEMBER                                             TYPE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log01.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log02.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log03.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log04.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log05.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log06.dbf             ONLINE
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log11.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log12.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log13.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log14.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log15.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log16.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log17.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log18.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log19.dbf             STANDBY
+CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log20.dbf             STANDBY
16 rows selected.--- Another thing I noticed, v$log doesn't list Standby Redo Logs. This is expected behaviour , I guess
Below is the output from Primary and Standby (it is the same)
set linesize 200
set pagesize 50
col member for a50
break on INST SKIP PAGE on GROUP# SKIP 1
select l.thread# inst, l.group#,lf.member, lf.type
    from v$log l , v$logfile lf
    where l.group# = lf.group#
    order by 1,2 ;
      INST     GROUP# MEMBER                                             TYPE
         1          1 +CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log01.dbf             ONLINE
                    2 +CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log02.dbf             ONLINE
                    3 +CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log03.dbf             ONLINE
      INST     GROUP# MEMBER                                             TYPE
         2          4 +CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log04.dbf             ONLINE
                    5 +CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log05.dbf             ONLINE
                    6 +CMAPCP_DATA01/cmapcp/cmapcp_log06.dbf             ONLINE

John_75 wrote:
Thank you ckpt, mseberg.
I think log_file_name_convert is set wrongly as you've mentioned. But If I don't want to any change to name of Online or standby redo log files in standby, I don't have to set log_file_name_convert at all. Right ?From Same link
If you specify an odd number of strings (the last string has no corresponding replacement string), an error is signalled during startup. If the filename being converted matches more than one pattern in the pattern/replace string list, the first matched pattern takes effect. There is no limit on the number of pairs that you can specify in this parameter (other than the hard limit of the maximum length of multivalue parameters).

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