Stops replication and puts the Replication Agent instance in the Admin state.
suspend
When the suspend command is invoked, it stops all current Replication Agent processing.
The Log Reader component stops scanning the transaction log immediately and the Log Transfer Interface (LTI) component stops sending LTL to the primary Replication Server immediately.
Any data in Replication Agent internal queues is flushed without further processing.
The Replication Agent instance immediately drops all its connections to the primary database and the primary Replication Server.
The Replication Agent instance goes from the Replicating state to the Admin state.
If the Replication Agent instance is in the Admin state, the suspend command returns an error message.
The suspend command is valid only when the Replication Agent instance is in the Replicating state.
The action of the quiesce command
is similar to that of the suspend command, except
that the quiesce command allows pending change
data in the Replication Agent internal queues to be processed before
putting the Replication Agent instance in the Admin state.
quiesce, ra_status, resume, shutdown
