Although the Cluster Edition recognizes the Transact SQL shutdown cluster and shutdown cluster with nowait, the sybcluster shutdown commands, and the Adaptive Server plug-in start and stop selections while in vcs membership mode, Sybase recommends that you use the VCS agent to start and stop instances.
Start and stop an instance running in vcs membership mode using the corresponding VCS service group, which uses a VCS agent to start and stop the instance. Control the VCS agent with the VCS Cluster Manager (Java console) or the hagrp command line utility.
See “Administering the Sybase Agent” in the SF Sybase CE Administrator’s Guide. For more information about the VCS agent and resource management, see the Veritas Cluster Server User's Guide.
