Administering Systems

The Web Console enables you to freeze and unfreeze systems. From the System page, freeze a system to stop all online and offline operations on the system.

Freezing a System

Freeze a system to prevent its components from failing over to another system. Use this procedure during a system upgrade.

  To freeze a system

1. From the System page, click Freeze in the left pane.
2. In the Freeze System dialog box:

   

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   1. If necessary, choose Persistent to enable the system to retain its frozen state when the cluster is rebooted.
   2. Select the Evacuate check box to fail over the system's active service groups to another system in the cluster before the freezing operation takes place.
   3. Click OK.