Sandeep, ssh allows for port-forwarding, if your network guys didn't diable this. I it is possible to create a so-called tunnel through portforwarding, even when several hops are involved. I use this on a regular basis when I perform remote support. I can open tora or raptor from my desktop at home on a server of a customer, hopping from firewall through management server to the db-server. Actually I map a local port to the SQL*Net port of the db-server of the customer. The local tnsnames resolves the connect alias top the port I defined on localhost. This allows for dataguard redo forwarding as well. When you use ssh with a compressing cipher-type you can even have the benefit of faster transfer. links: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/dataguardnetwork.htm //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/01-2004/msg00110.html Regards, Carel-Jan === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === > Hi, > > We need to implement physical standby database. Primary and standby > will be in two separate networks behind their own firewalls. Security > guys dont allow to ping from one server to other server. I can not > create sqlnet connection either. > > So from primary I ssh to a hop server and from there I ssh to standby. > Under given situation I assume that I can not set up data guard. Or is > there any way I can implement data guard? Is any suggestion to network > security folks that will let me connect from primary to standby > without opening any security risk? > > I have started looking into alternative solution using non-managed > standby. I created a standby database. I am copying the archived logs > from primary manually and applying on standby. Standby running behind > the primary acceptable here. Moving the archived logs will be > implemented through a perl script that will be called from cronjob. > In this script I have command "Recover standby database;" After that > if I do AUTO it applies all archived logs and give ORA-00308 for next > (not yet there) archived log. > This is the way it is supposed to be. > > Is there any way that standby recover to the last available archived > log and comes out cleanly? How can I query the last archived log file > applied on the standby database? > > Thanks > > Sandeep > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l