Creating the Shard Catalog Connect to the catalog database server via SSH and create the catalog database using GDSCTL. [oracle@gsmcat ~]$ export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/19.3.0/ gsmhome_1 [oracle@gsmcat ~]$ export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle [oracle@gsmcat ~]$ export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH [oracle@gsmcat ~]$ gdsctl GDSCTL> create shardcatalog -database gsmcat.mycompany.mydomain:1521/ gsmcatdb -region region1 -user gsm_admin/Oracle123 -agent_port 8080 -agent_password oracle -chunks 12 Here, gsmcat.mycompany.mydomain is a…