Activated Protection Groups Deactivated and Resource Groups in an Error State After a Cluster Reboot (6289463)

Problem Summary: A protection group is activated on the primary cluster with the resource group in an OK state. If the primary cluster is rebooted, when the cluster comes back up the protection group is in a deactivated state and the resource group is in an Error state.

Workaround: During a failback-switchover, before synchronizing the partnership as described in step 1a of the procedure, the protection group must be deactivated:

# geopg stop -e Local  protection-group-name

-e Local

Specifies the scope of the command

By specifying a local scope, the command operates on the local cluster only.

protection-group-name

Specifies the name of the protection group

If the protection group is already deactivated, the state of the resource group in the protection group is probably Error. The state is Error because the application resource groups are managed and offline.

Deactivating the protection group will result in the application resource groups no longer being managed, clearing the Error state.

For the complete procedure, see How to Perform a Failback-Switchover on a System That Uses Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2.1 Replication in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.