Well I used the Oracle docs and have two machines that both come up and all the commands working out but my logs dont get sent.

I know it has to do with my lack of understanding of the tnsnames and listener configs for Data Guard.

The Docs say to use the same db_name and instance_name but I cant get connectivity to both unless I use the same service_name = db_name. That wont work as I need a different service_name for the standby so the primary knows where to ship them off too but I cant find this info anywhere.

Thanks in advance.