During maintenance tasks like backup or inspection, you often need to switch a gbase database cluster to READONLY mode and back to NORMAL afterwards. This post shows how to perform the switch online with gcadmin — no downtime required.

Tools and Prerequisites

Tool: gcadmin, located on any Coordinator node.

User: Must be the cluster installation user (default gbase).

Pre‑check: Ensure gcware services are running (gcware_services status).