====Overview====
Obey files are files which contain instructures / commands to the golden gate. It is good if you want to automate stop / start. Or other procedures.

====Sample Obey File====
Let's see how they are configure. Well a simple ASCII file will do:

<Code:bash|Obey file>
[oracle@edvmr1p0 oggsrc]$ cat julien.oby 
info all
stop mgr!   <- "The ! indicates that we are sure we want that action and it won't ask us"
info mgr
start mgr
info all
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====Execution====
To execute an obey file just login in ggsci and run it :)

<Code:bash|Execute Obey file>
GGSCI (edvmr1p0) 1> obey julien.oby
GGSCI (edvmr1p0) 2> info all
Program     Status      Group       Lag at Chkpt  Time Since Chkpt
MANAGER     RUNNING                                           
GGSCI (edvmr1p0) 3> stop mgr!
Sending STOP request to MANAGER ...
Request processed.
Manager stopped.
GGSCI (edvmr1p0) 4> info mgr
Manager is DOWN!
GGSCI (edvmr1p0) 5> start mgr
Manager started.
GGSCI (edvmr1p0) 6> info all
Program     Status      Group       Lag at Chkpt  Time Since Chkpt
MANAGER     RUNNING                                           
GGSCI (edvmr1p0) 7> 
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