Hi All, I'm trying to setup realtime downstream capture have missed something in the setup as I cannot get the standby redo logs "working". They show INACTIVE at all times. My Env: Single instance (not RAC) Enterprise Edition 11.2.0.4 on all sites. Primary Site: ROPSTPOC Remote Location: RL1STPOC ROPSTPOC and RL1STPOC can tnsping each other and archived redo logs are getting shipped to RL1STPOC successfully. ROPSTPOC (Primary Site) settings: DG_CONFIG=(ROPSTPOC,RL1STPOC)' log_archive_dest_1='location=use_db_recovery_file_dest' log_archive_dest_2='SERVICE=RL1STPOC ASYNC NOREGISTER VALID_FOR=(ONLINE_LOGFILES,PRIMARY_ROLE) DB_UNIQUE_NAME=RL1STPOC TEMPLATE=/u03/fast_recovery_area/RL1STPOC_arch_%t_%s_%r.log'; RL1STPOC settings: log_archive_dest_1='location=use_db_recovery_file_dest VALID_FOR=(ONLINE_LOGFILE,PRIMARY_ROLE)' log_archive_dest_2='location=/u05/fast_recovery_area VALID_FOR=(STANDBY_LOGFILE,PRIMARY_ROLE)' log_archive_config='DG_CONFIG=(RL1STPOC,ROPSTPOC) On Remote Location: RL1STPOC alter database ADD STANDBY LOGFILE '/u02/oradata/RL1STPOC/stby_redo01.log' size 500m; alter database ADD STANDBY LOGFILE '/u02/oradata/RL1STPOC/stby_redo02.log' size 500m; alter database ADD STANDBY LOGFILE '/u02/oradata/RL1STPOC/stby_redo03.log' size 500m; alter database ADD STANDBY LOGFILE '/u02/oradata/RL1STPOC/stby_redo04.log' size 500m; On ROPSTPOC (Primary Site) settings SYS@ROPSTPOC> alter system archive log current; On Remote Location: RL1STPOC: alert log: Mon Sep 29 17:21:45 2014 RFS[2]: Opened log for thread 1 sequence 782 dbid 1309217406 branch 856117438 SYS@RL1STPOC> select PROCESS, STATUS, THREAD#, SEQUENCE# from v$managed_standby; PROCESS STATUS THREAD# SEQUENCE# --------- ------------ ------------ ------------ ARCH CLOSING 1 93 ARCH CLOSING 1 91 ARCH CONNECTED 0 0 ARCH CLOSING 1 92 RFS IDLE 0 0 RFS IDLE 0 0 RFS IDLE 1 782 RFS IDLE 0 0 But the standby logs never get used: GROUP# THREAD# MEMBER SEQ ARC STATUS FIRST_CHANGE# FIRST_TIME MBYTES ------ ------- ---------------------------------------------------- ------- --- ------------ ------------- ------------------ -------- 4 0 /u02/oradata/RL1STPOC/stby_redo01.log 0 YES UNASSIGNED 500.00 5 0 /u02/oradata/RL1STPOC/stby_redo02.log 0 YES UNASSIGNED 500.00 6 0 /u02/oradata/RL1STPOC/stby_redo03.log 0 YES UNASSIGNED 500.00 7 0 /u02/oradata/RL1STPOC/stby_redo04.log 0 YES UNASSIGNED 500.00 Other parts of my Streams setup work, but only when I manually switch a log on the Primary site. What have I missed? Rgds Tony