Hi Martin, That's cool :) How do you flag such events in Nagios? and notify you through email? I have Nagios books, but never had a chance to play with it. - Karl Arao http://karlarao.wordpress.com On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Martin Brown <martinfbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > We use maximum performance with log_archive_min_succeed_dest set to 1. If > the standby(s) fail, then nagios starts crying like a baby and we restart > managed recovery. It usually catches up in less than 15 minutes -- even if > it's been down for an hour. > > ------------------------------ > From: Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To: premj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:22:48 -0400 > Subject: RE: RAC dataguard - what happens when recovering instance goes > down ? > > > Well, I’m no Dataguard expert, but, seems to me, if stand by site goes > down, primary would remain up and as soon as standby was restored, log > shipping would begin playing catch up. Also, if you’re in maximum > protection mode, then at some point, you’d run out of space to queue up > archivelogs to be shipped to standby, at which point primary would hang…. > > > > But, that’s all based on what I read, and zero experience so take it for > what it’s worth…. > > > > -Mark > > > > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Prem Khanna J > *Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2009 8:59 AM > *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* RAC dataguard - what happens when recovering instance goes down > ? > > > > Friends, > > we have 2 node 10gR2 RAC dataguard setup on AIX5.3L. > > Just curiuous: > what happens when the recovering standby instance goes down ? > Has anyone come across this situation ? RTFM-ed , Google-ed .. > but still could not find the answer ! > > Regards, > Prem > > [image: Image removed by > sender.]<http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> > > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. Check > it > out.<http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009> >