By Mouhamadou Diaw

In Oracle 20c, we can now validate a Fast Start Failover configuration with the new command VALIDATE FAST_START FAILOVER. This command will help identifying issues in the configuration. I tested this new feature.
The Fast Start Failover is configured and the observer is running fine as we can see below.

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DGMGRL> show configuration verbose
Configuration - prod20
  Protection Mode: MaxPerformance
  Members:
  prod20_site1 - Primary database
    prod20_site2 - (*) Physical standby database
  (*) Fast-Start Failover target
  Properties:
    FastStartFailoverThreshold      = '30'
    OperationTimeout                = '30'
    TraceLevel                      = 'USER'
    FastStartFailoverLagLimit       = '30'
    CommunicationTimeout            = '180'
    ObserverReconnect               = '0'
    FastStartFailoverAutoReinstate  = 'TRUE'
    FastStartFailoverPmyShutdown    = 'TRUE'
    BystandersFollowRoleChange      = 'ALL'
    ObserverOverride                = 'FALSE'
    ExternalDestination1            = ''
    ExternalDestination2            = ''
    PrimaryLostWriteAction          = 'CONTINUE'
    ConfigurationWideServiceName    = 'prod20_CFG'
    ConfigurationSimpleName         = 'prod20'
Fast-Start Failover: Enabled in Potential Data Loss Mode
  Lag Limit:          30 seconds
  Threshold:          30 seconds
  Active Target:      prod20_site2
  Potential Targets:  "prod20_site2"
    prod20_site2 valid
  Observer:           oraadserver2
  Shutdown Primary:   TRUE
  Auto-reinstate:     TRUE
  Observer Reconnect: (none)
  Observer Override:  FALSE
Configuration Status:
SUCCESS
DGMGRL>

If we run the command we can see that everything is working and that a failover will happen if needed

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DGMGRL> VALIDATE FAST_START FAILOVER;
  Fast-Start Failover:  Enabled in Potential Data Loss Mode
  Protection Mode:      MaxPerformance
  Primary:              prod20_site1
  Active Target:        prod20_site2
DGMGRL

Now let’s stop the observer

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DGMGRL> stop observer
Observer stopped.

And if we run the Validate command again, we have the following message

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DGMGRL> VALIDATE FAST_START FAILOVER;
  Fast-Start Failover:  Enabled in Potential Data Loss Mode
  Protection Mode:      MaxPerformance
  Primary:              prod20_site1
  Active Target:        prod20_site2
Fast-start failover not possible:
  Fast-start failover observer not started.
DGMGRL>
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