The state of a Mirror Replication Agent instance indicates its current operational condition, and determines which administrative tasks you can perform.
Generally, there are only two reasons to change the state of a Mirror Replication Agent instance:
To perform certain administrative or maintenance procedures (change the state from Replicating to Admin)
To restore normal replication processing (change the state from Admin to Replicating), either after an administrative or maintenance procedure, or after recovery from an error
To change the state of the Mirror Replication Agent instance from Replicating to Admin, you can use either the quiesce or suspend command. For more information, see “Stopping replication in the Mirror Replication Agent”.
For more detailed information about the quiesce and suspend commands, see the Mirror Activator Mirror Replication Agent Reference Manual.
To change the state of the Mirror Replication Agent instance from Admin to Replicating, you can use the resume command. For more information, see “Starting replication in the Mirror Replication Agent”.
For more detailed information about the resume command, see the Mirror Replication Agent Reference Manual.
