Taking a service group offline
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Taking a service group offline

Manually put a service group into an unresponsive, nonfunctioning state. You must have the role of cluster operator or service group operator to take a service group offline.

You can take a service group offline on a specific system, or you can take the service group offline "anywhere". If you select the Anywhere option, the service group is taken offline on the first system in the cluster on which it is found.

To take a service group offline with the opportunity to specify one system

1. In the Cluster:Groups view, in the Groups Listing table, click the linked name of the online service group that you want to take offline.
2. In the Group:Summary view, in the Operations task panel, click Offline.
3. This step is necessary if only if the service group is online on more than one system.

   In the Offline Service Group dialog box, select the system on which to take the service group offline, or click Anywhere.

4. Click OK to confirm that you want to take the service group offline.

To take one or more service groups offline anywhere

1. In the Cluster:Groups view, in the Clusters Listing table, check the check box preceding the line item for each online service group that you want to take offline. Select all service groups by checking the check box at the top.
2. In the Operations task panel, click Offline Anywhere.
3. In the Offline Service Group(s) dialog box, click OK to confirm that you want to take the selected service groups offline anywhere (on any system) in the cluster.