There may be situations where you need to stop the primary, mirror, or arbiter server. You can use the Stop Database utility (dbstop) to do this.

You must use a connection to the utility database to stop the server, so it is recommended that you include the -su server option when starting the database server. See Using the utility database.

To use the alternate server name for the database server running the mirror database, you must use the -sm option when starting the database server. See -sm database option.