stopserver

Shuts down one or more subordinate metadata servers gracefully.

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               +- -?----+  '- -quiet-'
               +- -h----+
               '- -help-'

Parameters

–? | –h | –help
Displays a detailed description of this command, including syntax, parameter descriptions, and examples. If you specify a help option, all other command options are ignored.
–quiet
Turns off confirmation messages for this command.
server_name
Specifies the names of one or more subordinate metadata servers to shut down. The specified metadata servers must be part of the cluster.

Prerequisites

You must have Operator or Administrator privileges to use the command.

You must be logged in to the operating system on the engine hosting the master metadata server to run this command.

Description

To use this command, you must be logged into the master metadata server and the master metadata server must be running.

This command does not shut down the engine on which the specified metadata server runs and does not remove the metadata server from the cluster.

When you stop the master metadata server using the stopserver command, one of the subordinate metadata servers becomes the master metadata server. When you stop all of the metadata servers in the cluster using the stopcluster command, all of metadata servers are brought down gracefully.

When you stop a metadata server using the stopserver command, the metadata server restart service on that metadata server is changed to the STANDBY state only if metadata server restart service was previously in the ON state.

Example

Stop a metadata server The following example stops the metadata server ST1:
sfscli> stopserver ST1
Are you sure you want to stop the server and distribute its workload to
the remaining servers? [y/n] Y
Server ST1 shutdown successfully.

Parent topic: Administrative commands

Related tasks
Changing the system time
Stopping a metadata server

Related reference
addserver
chserverconfig
dropserver
lsautorestart
lsserver
setautorestart
setport
startautorestart
startserver
statserver
stopautorestart

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