Re: dataguard Broker

I got into a similar situation simply by forgetting to use a TNS entry while connecting to the Broker CLI and using a bequeath connection instead. If you provide the details you've been asked for we may shed some further light on this.

Cheers.
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 12:00, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Oracle 11.2.0.4 redhat 5.
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> I just cant get it to work!
> Everything in the DGB setup looked fine. Even got it checked by a third
> party.
> But just as last time we tried we got a message from broker saying cannot
> switchover and primary was still primary but when I looked
> then we had two standbys. Nightmare!
>
> My question is why did that happen?
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> The standby/primary pair operate fine manually but I really wanted to use
> DGB.
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> My method to recover from this was
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> 1. Connect to standby which should be primary. Alter database
> activate standby database;
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> 2. Rman into standby which should be standby – restore database;
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> 3. Start recovery at end of restore.
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> Howard A. Latham
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