3.2. Managing Cluster Nodes


The following sections describe the commands you use to manage cluster nodes, including commands to stop cluster services and to add and remove cluster nodes.

3.2.1. Stopping Cluster Services

The following command stops cluster services on the specified node or nodes. As with the pcs cluster start, the --all option stops cluster services on all nodes and if you do not specify any nodes, cluster services are stopped on the local node only.
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pcs cluster stop [--all] [node] [...]
You can force a stop of cluster services on the local node with the following command, which performs a kill -9 command.
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pcs cluster kill
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