stopcluster

Stops all metadata servers in the cluster gracefully.

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>>-stopcluster--+--------+--+---------+------------------------><
                +- -?----+  '- -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.

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

This command does not shut down any engines.

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.

Tip: The stopcluster command can be issued when the cluster is in a quiesced state.

Example

Stop the cluster The following example stops the cluster gracefully:
sfscli> stopcluster
Are you sure you want to shut down the cluster? [y/n] Y
Cluster shut down gracefully.

Parent topic: Administrative commands

Related tasks
Changing active cluster states
Stopping the cluster

Related reference
chadvclusterconfig
chclusterconfig
quiescecluster
resumecluster
startcluster
statcluster
upgradecluster

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