Bring Cluster Services Offline

Use the Bring Cluster Services Offline task to select nodes and manage how cluster services are stopped.

Fields

Choose nodes on which to stop cluster services
To stop running clusters services, select one or more nodes.
When to Stop
Select when and how cluster services stop.
Stop now
Immediately stops cluster services.
Stop on system restart
Removes entries from the /etc/inittab file and stops cluster services from starting when the system is restarted.
Stop now and on system restart
Immediately stops cluster services, removes entries from the /etc/inittab file to prevent cluster services from starting.
Resource group action
Select whether to manually manage the resource groups, have them automatically managed by the system or be unmanaged.
Bring resource groups offline
Brings resource groups offline according to the configuration settings and the cluster state of the resource group. The system stops monitoring applications on the selected nodes and stops controlling cluster resources.
Move resource groups
Moves the resource groups and applications from the selected nodes to other active nodes in the cluster, depending on the policy settings, as well as any configured resource group dependencies.
Unmanage resource groups
Resources on the selected nodes remain active but are not managed; therefore resource failures are not processed.
Broadcast message at shutdown
Select Yes or No.
Yes
By default, broadcast messages are displayed on every active terminal on all the nodes when cluster services are shut down.
No
Shutdown messages are not broadcast.