If you're not using data guard broker, at least consider it. joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional Senior Engineering & Administration Lead (Work) 614-677-1668 (Cell) 614-312-6715 Interested in helping out your marriage? Ask me about "Weekend to Remember" Dec 11-13, 2009 here in Columbus. From: Sanjeev Mellacheruvu <sanjeevorcle@xxxxxxxxx> To: eglewis71@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 09/16/2009 01:13 PM Subject: Re: dataguard - monitoring, startup Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Ed, I use following query modified based on metalink note 861595.1 to add few columns for thread#: select arch.thread# "Thread", appl.first_time "LastSeqApp1sttime",appl.sequence# "Last Sequence Applied", arch.first_time "LastSeqRec1sttime",arch.sequence# "Last Sequence Received", (arch.sequence# - appl.sequence#) "DiffSeq", round((arch.first_time-appl.first_time)*1440) "DiffMins" from (select thread# ,sequence#,first_time from v$archived_log where (thread#,first_time ) in (select thread#,max(first_time) from v$archived_log group by thread#)) arch, (select thread# ,sequence#,first_time from v$log_history where (thread#,first_time ) in (select thread#,max(first_time) from v$log_history group by thread#)) appl where arch.thread# = appl.thread# order by 1; Regards, Sanjeev. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:29 AM, ed lewis <eglewis71@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello, I have a few questions regarding dataguard. We currently have DG running in a 2 node cluster, and a third server (non-rac) The primary, and physical standby run in the cluster. The LSB being on a separate server. (not in the cluster) We are looking for ways to monitor the DG environment. We're creating some scripts to do so. Does anyone have any scripts they would recommend ? Is grid control a viable solution ? Also, on system reboots of the cluster, how do you handle the startup of DG, specially on the physical and logical servers ? Do you modify the cluster scripts, or dbstart to accommodate this, or create something else ? I was unable to find anything on metalink. Your response is appreciated. ed solaris 5.10 oracle 10.2.0.4 ee asm 10.2.0.4 ee 2 member rac cluster ee