High Availability Guide : Watchdog sample : Failure situations and Watchdog actions : Watchdog is down
  
Watchdog is down
This section explains what happens if the Watchdog fails.
Scenario
All connections to the Watchdog are broken.
Remedy
Manual intervention is required. When the Watchdog is brought up, be sure to check the Primary and Secondary servers to confirm their states.
Symptoms
The Watchdog process is down or network connections from the Watchdog to both servers are unavailable.
Further scenarios
If the servers have changed states and one server is no longer in service, refer to the applicable scenario in this section for instructions.
How to recover when the watchdog is down
About this task
To recover from the scenario where all connections to the Watchdog are broken:
Procedure
1 Allow the Primary and Secondary servers to continue normal operations.
2 Once the Watchdog is brought up, have it check the state of each server with the command:
ADMIN COMMAND 'hotstandby state';
See also
Failure situations and Watchdog actions