Freezing a Service Group

Freeze a service group to prevent it from failing over to another system. This freezing process stops all online and offline procedures on the service group.

  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 the user saves 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 the user saves this change to the configuration.
4. Click Apply.