Shutting down and restarting machines in a cluster

For some maintenance tasks, you might need to restart the services on a machine; for others, you need to reboot or shut down a machine. For example, you need to:

• Restart services
• Reboot
• Shut down
  For all of these options on individual machines, the cluster must have fault tolerance enabled.

To restart services on a machine in a cluster

You must be logged in as a user who is a member of the system group.

1. On the Cluster Management page, select Restart Cluster Services from the Actions drop-down.
2. Confirm the action.

To reboot a machine in a cluster

You must be logged in as a user who is a member of the system group.

1. On the Cluster Management page, click Reboot from the Actions drop-down.
2. Confirm the action.

To shut down a machine in a cluster

You must be logged in as a user who is a member of the system group.

1. On the Cluster Management page, select Shutdown from the Actions drop-down.
2. Confirm the action.