Replication Agent 15.5 supports the Recovery Manager (RMAN) utility for manipulating the Oracle archive log. In earlier versions, if Replication Agent removed the old archive redo log files directly by file system operation, the Oracle system table and RMAN were not updated for file deletion. Replication Agent can now call the RMAN utility to perform archive log truncation, which helps to keep the information in the RMAN utility and the Oracle system table accurate. To prevent Replication Agent from using the old technique of archiving transaction logs and using the RMAN utility instead, you must enable this feature.
Three new configuration parameters have been introduced for this feature, rman_enabled, rman_username, and rman_password. See Chapter 2, “Configuration Parameters” in the Replication Agent 15.5 Reference Manual.
Replication Agent supports only the archive log truncation feature of the RMAN utility.
