I got into a similar situation simply by forgetting to use a TNS entry
while connecting to the Broker CLI and using a bequeath connection instead.
If you provide the details you've been asked for we may shed some further
light on this.
Cheers.
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 12:00, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oracle 11.2.0.4 redhat 5.
I just cant get it to work!
Everything in the DGB setup looked fine. Even got it checked by a third
party.
But just as last time we tried we got a message from broker saying cannot
switchover and primary was still primary but when I looked
then we had two standbys. Nightmare!
My question is why did that happen?
The standby/primary pair operate fine manually but I really wanted to use
DGB.
My method to recover from this was
1. Connect to standby which should be primary. Alter database
activate standby database;
2. Rman into standby which should be standby – restore database;
3. Start recovery at end of restore.
Howard A. Latham
