Starting the Oracle Data Guard Broker OBSERVER in the BACKGROUND


Prior to Oracle 12.2 we had to find some homemade tricks to run the Observer at the background this way:
$ nohup dgmgrl -silent sys/P@$$w0rd@prmy_db "start observer" &
Finally, From Oracle 12.2 the Observer can run in the background using wallet authentication to connect to primary & standby databases and the far sync instance.

For configuring the wallet use the steps described in my post: "Creating a wallet - secure external password store"

Starting the observer at the background using the wallet credentials:
DGMGRL> START OBSERVER myobserver IN BACKGROUND FILE IS observer.dat LOGFILE IS observer.log CONNECT IDENTIFIER IS prmy_db
Submitted command "START OBSERVER" using connect identifier "prmy_db" 
You can follow the progress of the observer looking at the logfile:
$ tail observer.log
Connected to "prmy_db"
Connected as SYSDBA.
[W000 11/10 21:14:08.47] FSFO target standby is stndby_db
[W000 11/10 21:14:11.45] Observer 'myobserver' started
[W000 11/10 21:14:11.45] Observer trace level is set to USER
[W000 11/10 21:14:11.45] Try to connect to the primary.
[W000 11/10 21:14:11.45] Try to connect to the primary prmy_db.
[W000 11/10 21:14:11.46] The standby stndby_db is ready to be a FSFO target
[W000 11/10 21:14:13.46] Connection to the primary restored!
reference:
Doc ID 2285158.1

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