Well currently this has been a problem because we have a process that creates a reporting db each day by coverting the local standby to a reporting db, when this process is ran it applies all of the pending arcfiles to the new reporting db. but if the system see's that the remote standby is not in sync with prod it hangs the entire process until the Arcfiles are applied at the remote DR standby..

.. So how do I go about doing this manually if need be in SLES Linux - Oracle 10G-R2