After your RMAN configuration is operative in your Oracle RAC environment, use the GV$ARCHIVE_PROCESSES and V$ARCHIVE_PROCESSES views to determine the status of the archiver processes. Depending on whether you query the global or local views, these views display information for all database instances, or for only the instance to which you are connected.
Note:
If you use the kill command to stop the archiver process, then the database instance will fail.
See Also:
Oracle Database Administrator's Guide for more information about the archiver processes
Oracle Database Reference for more information about the database views