6.15.2. Performing Maintenance on a Primary

Primary maintenance must be carried out when the Primary has been switched to a Replica, and then shunned. The Primary can be temporarily switched to a Replica, taken out of the dataservice through shunning, and then added back to the dataservice and then switched back again to be the Primary.

Important

Maintenance on the dataserver should be performed directly on the corresponding server, not through the connector.

The complete sequence and commands required to perform maintenance on an active Primary are shown in the table below. The table assumes a dataservice with three datasources:

Step Description Command host1 host2 host3
1 Initial state   Primary Replica Replica
2 Set the maintenance policy set policy maintenance Primary Replica Replica
3 Switch Primary switch to host2 Replica Primary Replica
4 Shun host1 datasource host1 shun Shunned Primary Replica
5 Perform maintenance   Shunned Primary Replica
6 Validate the host1 server configuration tpm validate Shunned Primary Replica
7 Recover the Replica ( host1 ) back datasource host1 recover Replica Primary Replica
8 Ensure the Replica has caught up   Replica Primary Replica
9 Switch Primary back to host1 switch to host1 Primary Replica Replica
10 Set automatic policy set policy automatic Primary Replica Replica