Introduction to Data Guard broker

The Data Guard broker is a utility provided with the Oracle database server of the Enterprise edition. It includes the functionality to manage standby databases. It is also an integral part of Data Guard and of Oracle's Database Enterprise Manager. Broker interfaces are instinctive and easy, allowing for centralized control of the Data Guard configuration that makes the Data Guard an enhanced high availability and disaster protection solution. The Data Guard broker makes it easy to maintain and administer several standby databases. It maintains its own configuration files and runs a background process Data Guard Monitor Process (DMON) on both primary and standby database servers.

The Oracle Data Guard broker was introduced in the 9i Release 2, but the Oracle Database 11g version introduced several enhancements to the Data Guard broker feature so that a DBA could easily manage a complex and multidatabase disaster recovery environment.

The Data Guard broker...