Chapter 3: Administering Sybase Replication Agent

Suspending the Replication Agent instance

Suspending the Replication Agent instance stops its replication processing immediately:

The Log Reader component stops scanning the transaction log immediately, and the Log Transfer Interface component stops sending LTL commands to the Replication Server immediately.
All data in the Replication Agent internal queues (input and output queues of the Log Reader and Log Transfer Interface components) is flushed without further processing.
The Replication Agent instance releases all of its connections to the primary database (if any are open), and drops its connection to the Replication Server (and RSSD, if connected).
The Replication Agent instance goes from Replicating state to Admin state.

To suspend a Replication Agent instance

Log in to the Replication Agent instance with the administrator login.
Use the following command to suspend the Replication Agent:
```
suspend
```
After you invoke suspend, the Replication Agent instance should go from Replicating state to Admin state.
Use the following command to verify that the Replication Agent instance is in Admin state:
```
ra_status
```

See the Sybase Replication Agent Reference Manual for more detailed information about the suspend command.