Recovering an HDR cluster after the secondary server became the primary server

If a secondary server in an HDR cluster became the primary server after the original primary server failed, you can use a script to reestablish the original primary and convert the current primary server back to a secondary server.

About this task

Suppose the primary server, named srv_pri, has encountered an error that has caused it to fail over to an HDR secondary server named srv_hdr_sec. At this point, the primary server is srv_hdr_sec, and any other secondary servers in the cluster are now pointing to srv_hdr_sec.

To restore the cluster to the way it was before srv_pri failed over, follow these steps:

Procedure

Initialize srv_pri as the HDR secondary server by running the appropriate command:
UNIX™ systems:
```
$INFORMIXDIR/bin/hdrmksec.sh srv_hdr_sec
```
Windows™ systems:
```
hdrmksec.bat srv_hdr_sec
```
Change srv_pri to the primary server by running:
```
onmode -d make primary srv_pri
```
This command makes srv_pri the primary server, and redirects any other secondary servers in the cluster to point to the new primary server. The command also shuts down the old HDR primary (srv_hdr_sec) because only a single primary server can exist in a high-availability environment.
Initialize srv_hdr_sec as the HDR secondary server by running the following command:
On UNIX systems:
```
$INFORMIXDIR/bin/hdrmksec.sh srv_pri
```
On Windows systems:
```
hdrmksec.bat srv_pri
```