18.6. Disabling Resources for Maintenance

Disabling a resource essentially removes it from the JBoss ON server's view. There can be a lot of reasons why a resource will be taken offline — a machine could be moved to a new colocation facility, the platform may be upgraded, or there could be hardware changes. When an IT administrator knows that a resource will be unavailable, there is no reason to have an availability check which could trigger white noise of unnecessary reports. The resource can be disabled, which signals to the JBoss ON server that the resource availability is down (or cycling) and should be ignored.

There are two things to remember when disabling a resource:

The disabled resource has an orange icon marking its state.