Oracle 19C : Exporting and Importing Broker Configuration

Up to Oracle 19c, there was no automatic way to backup the configuration of the broker. One solution was to manually copy all executed instructions in a file.
With Oracle 19c, there is now the possibility to export and to import the configuration of the broker. Indeed the new EXPORT CONFIGURATION command will enable to save the metadata contained in the broker configuration file to a text file. This can be very useful if I have to recreate my configuration.
In this blog I have tested this command with following configuration

DGMGRL> show configuration

Configuration - db19c

  Protection Mode: MaxAvailability
  Members:
  DB19C_SITE1 - Primary database
    DB19C_SITE2 - Physical standby database
    DB19C_SITE3 - Physical standby database

Fast-Start Failover:  Disabled

Configuration Status:
SUCCESS   (status updated 47 seconds ago)

DGMGRL>

We can see the syntax of the EXPORT command with the help command

DGMGRL> help export

Export Data Guard Broker configuration to a file.

Syntax:

  EXPORT CONFIGURATION [TO ];

DGMGRL>

Now let’s export the configuration

DGMGRL> EXPORT CONFIGURATION TO db19c_config.txt
Succeeded.
DGMGRL>

The file is generated in the trace files directory.

[oracle@primaserver trace]$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/db19c_site1/DB19C/trace
[oracle@primaserver trace]$ ls -l db19c_config.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 8469 May  4 12:25 db19c_config.txt
[oracle@primaserver trace]$

Let’s remove the configuration

DGMGRL> EDIT CONFIGURATION SET PROTECTION MODE AS MAXPERFORMANCE;
Succeeded.
DGMGRL> remove configuration;
Removed configuration

DGMGRL> show configuration
ORA-16532: Oracle Data Guard broker configuration does not exist

Configuration details cannot be determined by DGMGRL
DGMGRL>

Now let’s use the IMPORT command to rebuild the configuration

DGMGRL> IMPORT CONFIGURATION FROM db19c_config.txt
Succeeded. Run ENABLE CONFIGURATION to enable the imported configuration.
DGMGRL>

As we can see the configuration is disabled after the import

DGMGRL> show configuration

Configuration - db19c

  Protection Mode: MaxAvailability
  Members:
  DB19C_SITE1 - Primary database
    DB19C_SITE2 - Physical standby database
    DB19C_SITE3 - Physical standby database

Fast-Start Failover:  Disabled

Configuration Status:
DISABLED

DGMGRL>

So let’s enable it

DGMGRL> ENABLE CONFIGURATION
Enabled.
DGMGRL> show configuration

Configuration - db19c

  Protection Mode: MaxAvailability
  Members:
  DB19C_SITE1 - Primary database
    Warning: ORA-16629: database reports a different protection level from the protection mode

    DB19C_SITE2 - Physical standby database
    DB19C_SITE3 - Physical standby database

Fast-Start Failover:  Disabled

Configuration Status:
WARNING   (status updated 6 seconds ago)

DGMGRL>

The warning is due to the fact that the protection mode was set to MaxPerformance to be able to drop the configuration.

DGMGRL> EDIT CONFIGURATION SET PROTECTION MODE AS MAXAVAILABILITY ;
Succeeded.
DGMGRL> show configuration

Configuration - db19c

  Protection Mode: MaxAvailability
  Members:
  DB19C_SITE1 - Primary database
    DB19C_SITE2 - Physical standby database
    DB19C_SITE3 - Physical standby database

Fast-Start Failover:  Disabled

Configuration Status:
SUCCESS   (status updated 37 seconds ago)

DGMGRL>

Now let’s run the EXPORT command without specifying a file name

DGMGRL> EXPORT CONFIGURATION
Succeeded.
DGMGRL>

We can see in the trace directory that a default name is generated for the file

DB19C_dmon_5912_brkmeta_1.trc

If we run again the export command

DGMGRL> EXPORT CONFIGURATION
Succeeded.
DGMGRL>

A second default file is created

DB19C_dmon_5912_brkmeta_2.trc

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