Dbvisit Standby 6.0.16 released

9 January 2012

Dbvisit Standby version 6.0.16 is released. This is a significant release as it includes a new easier to use method of creation of the standby database (CSD) to provide full disaster recovery for your Oracle databases.

CSD has been rewritten to support new functionality and make it easier to use and improve the overall ability to create different standby database configurations. CSD now makes use of the following Oracle parameters: 

• db_file_name_convert
• log_file_name_convert

CSD makes more use of RMAN in the background to provide better integration with the Oracle RDBMS. 

The complete list of features and fixes are:

New features:

1. New Create Standby Database (CSD) functionality which improves the overall ability to create different standby databases configurations.
   CSD now makes use of the following parameters:
   - db_file_name_convert
   - log_file_name_convert
2. Improved graceful switchover functionality. Existing controlfile is re-used for primary database and is no longer rebuild. Graceful switchover allows for more differences between primary and standby database.
3. Provide silent install for dbvisit_install. This installs product with all default values accepted. Type "dbvisit_install -?" for details.

Fixes:

1. Issue with adding own ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME in web interface - fixed.
2. Dbvisit temp p2x-* directories not cleaned up for HP-UX and AIX - fixed.
3. Improve locking mechanism in rare cases when archive log file just arrives at the standby server and is 0 size and is picked up by Dbvisit Standby on the standby server.
4. Improved tracing of Dbvserver.
5. Obtain ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID from registry for Windows 2008R2.