My Oracle Support Banner

How to create a Global Data Services (GDS) configuration (Doc ID 1636399.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 08, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 12.1]
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

 

NOTE: In the images and/or the document content below, the user information and environment data used represents
fictitious data from the Oracle sample schema(s),Public Documentation delivered with an Oracle database product or
other training material. Any similarity to actual environments, actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental
and not intended in any manner.

For the purposes of this document, the following fictitious environment is used as an example
to describe the procedure:

ORACLE_HOME path: /u02/app/product/12.1.0.1/gsm
REGIONS: REGIONORA
POOLS: DBPOOLORA
SERVICE: REPORT1
LISTENER_NAME: gsmau
PRIMARY DATABASE: PRIMARY1
STANDBY DATABASE: STANDBY2
GSM Host name: HOST13
GSM MANAGER SOFTWARE HOST:  aulnx13
STANDBY HOST: HOST14
GSM_ADMIN USER: GSMADMIN, GSMAU

 

*** Reviewed for Relevance 16-Jul-2015 ***

The goal of this how-to is provide steps on creating a Global Data Services (GDS) configuration, with a 12c active dataguard.  

A Global Data Services configuration provides client access through global services to multiple databases configured in the catalog. Those databases can be single instance or RAC. 

A Global Data Services configuration and its global services are created and managed using the GDSCTL command-line interface.

The configuration is specific to Oracle Server Enterprise Edition 12c or above.
This how-to assumes:
  - the global service manager (gsm) software is installed in host aulnx13.
  - a catalog database (12c) is created, in this example, called gsmcat, running on host aulnx13, listener port is 12100.
  - an active dataguard has already been created: Primary database "PRIMARY1", Standby database "STANDBY1", both running on 12.1.0.1, running on HOST13 and HOST14 respectively.
     Listener port is 12101.
This document is focusing on setup the configuration and demostrate how the client connection use the global service.

Solution

To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.

Don't have a My Oracle Support account? Click to get started!

In this Document
Goal
Solution
References

My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.