ORA-16789: standby redo logs configured incorrectly

The DG Broker is reporting some warnings for one of my databases in the Broker configuration.

 

DGMGRL> show database orcl

Database - orcl

Role: PRIMARY
 Intended State: TRANSPORT-ON
 Instance(s):
 orcl1
 orcl2
 orcl3
 orcl4
 orcl5
 orcl6
 orcl7

Database Warning(s):
 ORA-16789: standby redo logs configured incorrectly
 ORA-16789: standby redo logs configured incorrectly
 ORA-16789: standby redo logs configured incorrectly
 ORA-16789: standby redo logs configured incorrectly
 ORA-16789: standby redo logs configured incorrectly
 ORA-16789: standby redo logs configured incorrectly
 ORA-16789: standby redo logs configured incorrectly

Database Status:
WARNING

 

If these warnings were seen in the standby database, the most common reason is that the Standby Redo Logs are smaller than the primary’s Online Redo Logs. But note in the above output, this is from the primary database.

 

The reason for these warnings is quite simple…my primary does not have any SRL groups. Once I added the SRL groups, the warnings went away.