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:
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
For example, to modify the attribute Critical of the Sybase resource, syb_ase125 for primary companion, MONEY1:
hares -modify syb_ase125 Critical 0
(See the Veritas Cluster Server User's Guide for more information about the hares command.)
Suspend normal companion mode. From the secondary companion, issue:
sp_companion companion_name, suspend
For example, to suspend primary companion MONEY1 for maintenance, connect to secondary companion PERSONNEL1 and issue:
sp_companion MONEY1, suspend
