UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,

I'm new to vcs. I have a doubt. I need to know, what will happen if an agent is stopped while reources being online. Eg.. while the oracle agent is stopped, will all the oracle resources will become offline..

Advanced thanks

VCS will not let you stop an agent if any resources owned by that agent (that is, resources of that Type) are online in the cluster.

Now, if you manage to stop the agent outside VCS, then VCS will kick out a dead-agent trigger (if configured), and I think it will automatically restart the agent (not really sure from memory)

If your desire is to stop the agent but still keep the monitored application (Oracle in your example) up, then "simply" delete all resources of that type.

After that, your application-service stays up and is no longer monitored, nor managed in any way via VCS until you re-establish the resources.

BTW: once you re-created a resource of that type, as soon as you enable it, the companion agent starts -- so be aware of that (this is generally what you want to have happen).