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.
Let's see how they are configure. Well a simple ASCII file will do:
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
To execute an obey file just login in ggsci and run it :)
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>