4.2.4 Stopping the Membership Monitor While Running RDBMS Instances

Database server instances can run on a node only after you have invoked the startnode option and the node has successfully joined the cluster. All database instances should be shut down before the stopnode option is invoked.

If you are running Oracle7 Parallel Server, Oracle8 Parallel Server, or Informix XPS, refer to your product documentation for shutdown procedures.

If the stopnode command is executed while the Oracle7 or Oracle8 instance is still running on the node, stopnode will hang and the following message is displayed on the console:

ID[vxclust]: stop: waiting for applications to end

The Oracle7 or Oracle8 instance must be shut down for the stopnode command to terminate successfully.

If the stopnode command is executed while the Informix-Online XPS instance is still running on the node, the database hangs and becomes unusable.