We're planning on not using the broker. I wouldn't care about the unnecessary switchovers if we could get them to go faster. I'm thinking we should just perform failovers and use flash recovery to reestablish the replication between the two databases. Thx, Dave ----- Original Message ---- From: Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: dnt9000@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:49:35 PM Subject: RE: ODG 10GR2 >>> >>> <Bug:4404952> : DG BROKER DOES NOT SUPPORT COLD-FAILOVER CLUSTERS >>> >>> I was told my Oracle support that giving dataguard a vip >>>makes it think that you're running RAC and that there is a >>>request out to fix the problems. I spent well over a week >>>wrestling with local_listener, sid parameter, etc because of >>>this. We'll either yank VCS or the broker to fix this. Hope Yank VCS? Your DG primary is in a VCS cold failover cluster...won't you suffer unecessary switchovers in the even of a node failure? Will you also get rid of the cluster? Just wondering. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l