I found in the 9.2 documentation that these two parameters were removed but everywhere I look it seems people are populating them manually still and I see no mention of them being managed by the broker in 11 and 12 documentation. Are these still managed by the broker, or are they back to a manual process?
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What's New in Data Guard Broker?
Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2) New Features in Data Guard Broker
• Removed the FAL_SERVER and FAL_CLIENT properties; these are managed automatically by Data Guard broker.
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96629/whatsnew.htm
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Oracle Database Online Documentation 12c Release 1 (12.1) / High Availability
Data Guard Concepts and Administration
16 Initialization Parameters
FAL_SERVER = Specifies one or more Oracle Net service names for the databases from which this standby database can fetch (request) missing archived redo log files.
FAL_CLIENT = This parameter is no longer required. If it is not set, the fetch archive log (FAL) server will obtain the client's network address from the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_n parameter that corresponds to the client's DB_UNIQUE_NAME.