Create primary and manual standby from two identical production clones (12.1.0.2)
I have a bit of a unique situation. I have two clones of the same database (12.1.0.2) and I am trying to make a one a new primary (server1) and the other its standby (server2). Because of network issues, it needs to be a manual standby setup even though I have EE. Both machines are successful clones of the same production machine and both were set up as manual data guard to the original production server to allow the archives logs to get in sync.
I transitioned server1 into the primary role and forced some log switches to generate some logs. I have shipped those logs to the standby machine (server2). The standby machine (server2) has cataloged the files but will not apply them. I know I'm missing something at this point but can't seem to put my finger on it.