I have 2 servers in an SDS cluster.

ids_1 is the primary
ids_2 is the secondary

If the whole cluster is lost, and only the server with ids_2 comes back,
how can I restart the ids_2 instance?

If I start it with SDS_ENABLE =1 it will crash because it cannot connect to
its primary (as ids_1 is still unavailable).
If I start it with SDS_ENABLE=0 it will not come up because it detects,
correctly, that the configuration is a SDS cluster.

So there seems no way to get the cluster going again if the primary node is
unavilable.

In fact, in this customer site, they want always to start the cluster on
ids_1 even if ids_2 had been the Primary at the time the cluster was shut
down, and here I face similar problems: there is no way I can see to start
ids_1 if ids_2 had been the Primary when the system was shut down.

Thanks!

You can start the ids_2 using 'oninit -SDS=<alias> ' command.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...s_adr_0398.htm


- Nilesh -


informix-list-bounces (AT) iiug (DOT) org wrote on 05/27/2010 03:34:42 PM: