Stopping a metadata server

This topic describes how to stop a metadata server.

Prerequisites

You must have Administrator or Operator privileges to perform this task.

Context

This task allows you to gracefully stop the one or more selected metadata servers. The metadata servers and their associated states, roles, and filesets are displayed for review and confirmation before the stop is executed.

Steps

  1. Click Manage Servers and Clients > Servers from the My Work frame.
  2. Select one or more metadata servers to stop.
    Note: Only active metadata servers can be stopped. Active metadata servers are those in one of the following states:
    • offline
    • fully quiescent
    • partly quiescent
    • online
  3. Click Stop from the drop-down box in the table header.
  4. Click Go.
  5. Verify that you selected the metadata servers that you want to be stopped.
  6. Click OK to confirm the stop action.

Parent topic: Managing metadata servers

Related concepts
Metadata server

Related reference
Servers panel
Stop Servers panel
Metadata server states
stopserver

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