Overview of Administering Protection Groups

To add an existing Oracle Data Guard Broker configuration that contains an Oracle Data Guard replicated database to a new protection group, you will complete the following general procedures.

1. On a node in either cluster, create the protection group.

   This procedure is covered in How to Create and Configure an Oracle Data Guard Protection Group.

2. On the same node, add the Oracle Data Guard Broker configuration to the protection group.

   This procedure is covered in How to Add an Oracle Data Guard Broker Configuration to an Oracle Data Guard Protection Group.

3. On a node in the other cluster, retrieve the protection group configuration.

   This procedure is covered in How to Replicate the Oracle Data Guard Protection Group Configuration to a Partner Cluster.

4. On the same node, add the Oracle shadow RAC server proxy resource group and application resource group to the protection group.

   This procedure is covered in How to Add an Application Resource Group to an Oracle Data Guard Protection Group.

5. Activate the protection group, either globally from either cluster or locally from the primary.

   This procedure is covered in How to Activate an Oracle Data Guard Protection Group.