Bill, I have a step-by-step document that I put together to setup and test a 4-way configuration. I can send it to you privately, if you'd like. Mark Qpass, Seattle On Feb 19, 2008 3:09 PM, William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am new to Data Guard and have a question concerning configuration. I > am running Oracle EE 10.2.0.3.0 on RHEL4 and setting up a physical > standby. I haven't been able to find a specific answer to this question > in the documentation and hoping someone can help. In the primary I the > following is set... > > SQL> show parameter name > > NAME TYPE VALUE > ------------------------------------ ----------- > ------------------------------ > db_file_name_convert string /opt/oracle/edrs/, > /opt/oracle > /edrs/ > db_name string edrs > db_unique_name string edrs > global_names boolean FALSE > instance_name string edrs > lock_name_space string > log_file_name_convert string /opt/oracle/edrs/, > /opt/oracle > /edrs/ > service_names string edrs > > I understand that on the standby server the db_unique_name must be > unique but it is not clear to me whether the db_name,instance_name and > service_names must also be unique. From some of the examples I have > found it appears that the db_name and instance_name may be the same but > I am not sure. I also don't find anything indicating that the > service_names parameter must also be different on each node. It doesn't > seem like it needs to be but I'm not sure. Any help appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Bill Wagman > Univ. of California at Davis > IET Campus Data Center > wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx > (530) 754-6208 > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >