Suspending normal companion mode

Suspended mode temporarily disables the ability of the primary companion to fail over to the secondary companion. To switch from normal companion mode to suspended mode:

  1. As root, use hares to change the attribute Critical for the Sybase resource on primary node to 0. The syntax is:

    hares -modify name_of_Sybase_resource Critical 0
    

    See the Veritas Cluster Server 1.3.0 User's Guide for more information about the hares command.

  2. Suspend normal companion mode. From the secondary companion, issue:

    sp_companion companion_name, suspend