Changing geographic mirroring properties

All geographic mirroring properties can be changed when the production copy of the independent disk pool is varied off. The Synchronization Priority property can be also changed with the independent disk pool is Available and geographic mirroring is Suspended.

Changing geographic mirroring properties with IBM® PowerHA® SystemMirror® for i licensed program

To change the geographic mirroring properties by using the PowerHA graphical interface, follow these steps:

  1. In a Web browser, enter http://mysystem:2001, where mysystem is the host name of the system.
  2. Log on to the system with your user profile and password.
  3. Click PowerHA from the IBM Navigator for i window.
  4. On the PowerHA page, click Independent ASPs.
  5. On the Independent ASPs page, select Details… from the context menu of the independent disk pool for which you want to change the geographic mirroring properties.
  6. On the Independent ASP Details page, select Mirroring Properties… from the Select Action menu below the mirroring status.
  7. On the Properties page, click Edit.
  8. Make changes to the properties and click Save.

Changing geographic mirroring with command line interface when IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i licensed program is installed

To change the geographic mirroring session using the command line interface, issue the following command:
  • CHGASPSSN SESSION(session-name) OPTION(*CHGATTR) where session-name is the name of your geographic mirroring Mirror session. You need to list the attributes that should be changed.

Changing geographic mirroring properties with IBM Navigator for i

To change the geographic mirroring properties by using IBM Navigator for i, follow these steps:
  1. In IBM Navigator for i, expand My Connections (or your active environment).
  2. Expand the system that owns the production copy of the geographically mirrored disk pool associated with the geographic mirror session for which you want to edit the attributes,Configuration and Service > Hardware > Disk Units > Disk Pools.
  3. Right-click the production copy of the Disk Pool for which you want to edit the attributes and select Sessions > Open.
  4. Right-click the production copy of the Session for which you want to edit the attributes and select Properties. To change an associated copy description, select the copy description and click Edit.