Freezing a service group
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Freezing a service group

Freeze a service group to prevent it from failing over to another system. The freezing process stops all online and offline procedures on the service group. Note that you cannot freeze a service group when the service group state is in transition.

To freeze a service group from Cluster Explorer

  1. In the Service Groups tab of the configuration tree, right-click the service group.

    or

    Click the cluster in the configuration tree, click the Service Groups tab, and right-click the service group icon in the view panel.

  2. Click Freeze, and click Temporary or Persistent from the menu. The persistent option maintains the frozen state after a reboot if you save this change to the configuration.

To freeze a service group from Command Center

  1. In the Command Center configuration tree, expand Commands > Operations > Availability > Freeze Service Group.
  2. Click the service group.
  3. Select the persistent check box if necessary. The persistent option maintains the frozen state after a reboot if you save this change to the configuration.
  4. Click Apply.
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