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The standard scripts that Oracle provides to start databases at boot time will not start the standby databases in the correct mode when the server is started or rebooted.It is therefore recommended to edit the Oracle supplied scripts (if used) and to comment out the starting of the databases, and to use Dbvisit Standby to start the databases at boot time. Dbvisit Standby will start the standby databases and primary databases in the correct mode.The Oracle supplied scripts will still be used to start Listener, agent or networking processes. Dbvisit Standby does NOT start and stop listener, agent or networking services and processes. Dbvserver Scheduler can also be used to start the databases automatically. Please see Dbvserver Scheduler Autostart for more information. The Dbvserver process will need to be started at boot time with init.d scripts for this to be automated.
Setting up init.d scripts to start and stop the database automatically:
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