standby_archive_dest
we know that STANDBY_ARCHIVE_DEST only comes into play when the database is in physical standby mode
we have the following settings on our physical standby
LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 = LOCATION=e:\oradata\qaracdr\archivelogs
STANDBY_ARCHIVE_DEST = e:\oradata\qaracdr\standby_archive_logs
We logged onto INSTANCE 1 of primary RAC and performed a log switch and repeated the same on instance # 2
On standby we saw that the resultant logs were transferred to the standby database and were placed under
the location of LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 on the standby server, i.e. "e:\oradata\qaracdr\archivelogs"
We were thinking that the resultant archive log files from primary should have been place under STANDBY_ARCHIVE_DEST as defined on the standby server which is