So, I understand the concepts of the AOAG, and I have it configured as
DC1: Primary / Replica 1 Sync automatic Failover
DC2: Replica 2 - Async Manual Failover
DC3: File share witness.
I added both IPs for the 2 subnets to the Listener. So here are the issues I am having
1. Logged in using the service account which is SysAdmin on all instances, I try to force failover from Primary to Replica 1 and I receive the error Availability group DDL operations are permitted only when you are using the master database (error 35208). I checked around and it says to make sure master is the default database for the login which it is on all instances. If I login with 'sa' and fail it over it works fine.
2. If I failover to DC2/Replica 2 it works, but I noticed the other nodes become paused and I have to manually start the old primary, but when I start the secondary I again get the (35208 error)
In the old mirroring setups if you failover it immediately goes to synchronizing with no issues.
All systems appear to be able to see each other from Windows, but under the replicas folder on either secondary it doesn't show the status of the other secondary. Is that normal?
John M. Couch