Hello, cluster rh el 5.3 with 2 nodes and a quorum disk with heuristics. The nodes are in different sites. At this moment inside cluster.conf I have this: <quorumd device="/dev/mapper/mpath6" interval="5" label="oraquorum" log_facility="local4" log_level="7" tko="16" votes="1"> <heuristic interval="2" program="ping -c1 -w1 10.4.5.250" score="1" tko="20"/> </quorumd> there is a planning for backbone network maintenance and I'm gong to have interruption on backbone switches in both sides, so that the gw will be not reachable in different time windows..... I would like to "downgrade" the cluster to a sort of standalone server, to prevent scenario of shutdown abort of oracle, due to ping-pong of service.... and without stopping service itself. Only thing is that when the network link will be down, the service will be down too (accettable by users), but without impact to the backend db on the cluster. My idea is to temporarily extend tko inside heuristic, so that the count-down for loss of quorum will not arrive at a end during downtime. So that if overall planned maintenance is 2h I will put something like tko=1500 on the fly. So my planned commands would be, where node1 is providing service and node2 is standby: node2 - shutdown -h now (to simplify things...) node1 - change to cluster.conf incrementing version number and putting tko=1500 - ccs_tool update /etc/cluster/cluster.conf - cman_tool version -r <new_version> the new tko will be dynamically in place? If so, wait for maintenance completion and then node1 - change to cluster.conf incrementing version number and putting tko=20 again - ccs_tool update /etc/cluster/cluster.conf - cman_tool version -r <new_new_version> node2 power on it will keep the new configuration without downsides (correct?) Any hints or comments? Thanks in advance, Gianluca <title> </title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Unix)"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } </style>