Re: Data Guard Management Interfaces

From: <Laimutis.Nedzinskas_at_seb.lt>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:56:03 +0300
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I personnaly adhere to economical approach (tools, command set, etc must be kept minimal)

Having said that I can acknowledge that dgmgrl works. We use dgmgrl in production. Period.

Problems we encountered are in the area of fast_start failover. Which again is not dgmgrl interface issue but broker issues. So far we follow one simple rule: stop fast_start failover before doing any dgmgrl command except of status reads.

Last but not least: out version is 10.2.0.4 plus year old patch bundles applied for broker, dg, logical dg, server.

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Hi List,

I’m just getting started with Data Guard and curious which management interface those with extensive experience would recommend? I am very comfortable with the command line and use SQL*Plus for 99% of my DBA tasks. I’m not currently running Grid Control – I just start up DB Control briefly when needed and then shut it back down. Am I better off just using the SQL*Plus commands for DG, or should I use the command-line version of DG Broker (DGMGRL), or is it worth setting up Grid Control just for the convenience of the GUI for managing Data Guard? Based on my previous experience testing Grid Control (more trouble than it’s worth in my opinion), and comfort level with the command-line, I’m leaning towards one of the CLI options – either SQL*Plus or DGMGRL. Eventually I’ll probably take the time to learn them both and decide for myself which one I like better, but I’m just curious which one you Data Guard experts would recommend to start with and any major pros or cons of any of them.

I’m running Oracle 10.2.0.4 on AIX6.1 and just setting up a simple configuration with one physical standby.

Thanks,
Brandon

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