When the configuration status of a protection group is displayed as Error in the geoadm status output, you can validate the configuration by using the geopg validate command. This command checks the current status of the protection group and its entities.
If the protection group and its entities are valid, then the configuration status of the protection groups is set to OK. If the geopg validate command finds an error in the configuration files, then the command displays an error message, and the configuration remains in the Error state. In such a case, you can fix the error in the configuration, and rerun the geopg validate command.
This section provides the following information:
During protection group validation, the Oracle GoldenGate data replication layer validates the application resource groups and the data replication entities by verifying that an application resource group in the protection group has its Auto_start_on_new_cluster property set to false.
When you bring a protection group online on the primary cluster, Disaster Recovery Framework brings the application resource groups participating in that protection group online on the same primary cluster. Setting the Auto_start_on_new_cluster property to false prevents the Oracle Solaris Cluster resource group manager from automatically starting the application resource groups. In this case, the startup of resource groups is reserved for the Disaster Recovery Framework software.
Application resource groups should be online only on the primary cluster when the protection group is activated.
The Oracle GoldenGate geocontrol module supplies a script that is used by the script-based plug-in module. The script entry points require the same set of arguments. These arguments are validated for semantics and completeness. The following validation checks are performed:
Are all of the mandatory arguments defined?
Is the configured Oracle GoldenGate resource defined?
Is the specified replication resource configured with a correct start command, if the resource exists already?
Is the PINGTIME interval numeric?
When the validation is complete, the Disaster Recovery Framework software creates and brings online the replication resource group and its resources if they don't already exist. If a resource group or resource of the same name already exists, the Disaster Recovery Framework software might modify its properties. The software cannot create a new resource group or a resource of the same name if one already exists. After creating the necessary resources, the software adds the application resource group to the protection group.
The geopg validate command validates the configuration of the protection group on the local cluster only. To validate the protection group configuration on the partner cluster, rerun the command on the partner cluster.
Before You Begin
Ensure that the following conditions are met:
The protection group you want to validate exists locally.
The common agent container is online on all nodes of both clusters in the partnership.
# geopg validate protection-group
The unique name of a single protection group.
In the following example, the configuration of a protection group is validated:
# geopg validate goldengate-pg