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:

[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 :)

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>