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How to Discover Oracle Data Guard

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Discovery Mechanism

In general, Oracle Data Guard contains one primary database and more than one standby database.

In the Oracle Connection by Shell job, Data Flow Probe connects to both primary database and standby database with the Shell protocol, and then log in to Oracle with SQL*Plus.

Universal Discovery parses Oracle primary database SID and standby database service name from Shell command line, queries the Data Guard configuration information through SQL*Plus, and report back Oracle Data Guard CI and the connected databases.

Discovery Steps

This task includes the following steps: