Starting the Quorum Witness client using the CLI

Start the Quorum Witness client to activate communication between the storage systems and the Quorum Witness (QW) server. In this procedure, System1234 is used to identify the source storage system. System4321 is used to identify the target storage system.

Prerequisites

The quorum is in the Not-Started state.

Procedure

Source storage system

  1. Start the Quorum Witness client. 
    cli% setrcopytarget witness start <target_name>

    Where: <target_name>—Name of the target on the secondary (target) system

  2. Verify that the Quorum Witness client started. The Q-Status column displays Started. 
    cli% showrcopy -qw targets

Target storage system

  1. Start the Quorum Witness client. 
    cli% setrcopytarget witness start <target_name>
  2. Verify that the Quorum Witness client started. The Q-Status column displays Started. 
    cli% showrcopy -qw targets

Example

Source storage system 
s1234 cli% setrcopytarget witness start s4321

s1234 cli% showrcopy -qw targets
Remote Copy System Information
Status: Started, Normal

Target Information

Name ID Type Status Policy        QW-Server            QW-Ver  Q-Status     Q-Status-Qual
s4321 3 IP   ready  mirror_config https://xxxxxx:8443" 4.0.xxx Started
Target storage system 
s4321 cli% setrcopytarget witness start s1234

s4321 cli% showrcopy -qw targets
Remote Copy System Information
Status: Started, Normal

Target Information

Name  ID Type Status Policy        QW-Server            QW-Ver  Q-Status     Q-Status-Qual
s1234  3 IP   ready  mirror_config https://xxxxxx:8443" 4.0.xxx Started