There are have a lot of ways to stop/start primary and standby databases. I will show you one of them. We needed to migrate physically servers to new plaza. So, I had to stop all with clean. Parameters: Primary Stanby db_name FCDBPROD FCDBPROD instance_name FCDBPROD FCDBSTND open_mode READ WRITE MOUNTED database_role PRIMARY PHYSICAL STANDBY ip 10.10.10.10 10.10.10.20 Data guard broker was configured. DGMGRL> show configuration Configuration - DGMANAGER Protection Mode: MaxPerformance Databases: FCDBPROD - Primary database FCDBSTND - Physical standby database Fast-Start Failover: DISABLED Configuration Status: SUCCESS 1. Stop applying. # I do it on Standby side DGMGRL> edit database "FCDBSTND" set state="APPLY-OFF"; 2. Shutdown Primary database [oracle@fcdbdb ~]$ export ORACLE_SID=FCDBPROD [oracle@fcdbdb ~]$ dgmgrl / DG...