After you configure your companions for asymmetric failover, you can configure them for symmetric configuration. In a symmetric configuration, both servers act as primary and secondary companions. See Figure 3-2 for a description of symmetric configuration.
Before you configure for a symmetric set up, you must first the scswitch utility to disable the monitoring of the primary and secondary resources:
scswitch -n -M -j primary_resource scswitch -n -M -j secondary_resource
Issue sp_companion from the secondary companion to configure it for symmetric configuration. Use the same syntax as for asymmetric configuration. See “Configuring for asymmetric configuration”” for a description of the syntax for sp_companion.
The following example adds an Adaptive Server named PERSONNEL1 as the primary companion to the Adaptive Server named MONEY1.
sp_companion 'PERSONEL1', configure, with_proxydb, sa, Think2Odd
Server 'PERSONEL1' is alive and cluster configured. Step: Access verified from Server:'MONEY1' to Server:'PERSONEL1' Server 'MONEY1' is alive and cluster configured. Step: Access verified from Server:'PERSONEL1' to Server:'MONEY1' (1 row affected) (1 row affected) (1 row affected) (1 row affected) (1 row affected) (1 row affected) ..... Step: Companion servers configuration check succeeded Step: Server handshake succeeded Step: Master device accessible from companion Step: Added the servers 'MONEY1' and 'PERSONEL1' for cluster config Step: Server configuration initialization succeeded Step: Synchronizing server logins from companion server Step: Synchronizing remoteserver from companion server Step: Synchronizing roles from companion server Step: Synchronizing server-wide privs from companion server Step: User information syncup succeeded Step: Server configured in normal companion mode
Change the NodeList property of the secondary resource group to include both nodes:
scrgadm -c -g secondary_group -y NodeList=secondary_node,primary_node
The following example changes the NodeList property of the resource group ase_rg2 which contains the Adaptive Server Personel1:
scrgadm -c -g ase_rg2 -y NodeList=node2,node1
Use the scswitch utility to enable the monitoring of the primary and secondary resources:
scswitch -e -M -j primary_resource scswitch -e -M -j secondary_resource
