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 CLI database, authentication is required. Add the following line to the sqlnet.ora file to gain authentication:

   [oracle@oracle-primary admin]$ cat sqlnet.ora|grep SQLNET
   SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE)
   

3. Connecting with OS authentication...