Oracle Solution for Error ora-16660

ORA-16660: fast-start failover operation attempted in absence of a broker configuration

What triggered the Error:

An attempt was made to enable or disable fast-start failover when connected to a standby database for which broker configuration details are currently unavailable. For instance, the standby database may currently require re-creation (or flashback reinstantiation) before it may respond to broker client commands.

What should we do to fix it:

1) An attempt to enable or disable (non-FORCE) fast-start failover at this standby database will be rejected until such time that the broker configuration details have been made available to that standby database from the primary database. This normally occurs when the standby database is successfully re-created or flashed back, and then reenabled at the primary database. 2) Use the FORCE option to override fast-start failover that has been enabled at the standby database even when the broker configuration details are currently unavailable to the standby database. In this case, this status message is only a warning. Note that fast-start failover is not formally disabled in the broker configuration. The effect of this command issued under these circumstances may or may not be permanent, depending upon when the primary and standby databases regain full communication between each other and if the state of fast-start failover has been altered at the primary database in the meantime.