Time for action – connecting to Data Guard broker

You can connect the DGMGRL interface locally by specifying only the username with the password, or just using / if OS authentication is possible. If you are connecting from a remote machine, you must use Oracle Net Services name to connect the Data Guard broker. Use the following steps to see some examples of broker connections:

  1. To connect from either a primary or a standby database server with OS authentication enabled, you can connect using / as follows:
    [oracle@oracle-primary ~]$ dgmgrl /
DGMGRL for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
Copyright (c) 2000, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Welcome to DGMGRL, type "help" for information.
Connected.
DGMGRL>
  2. In order to connect to the broker ...

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