Suspend a server remotely?

tonycody · ‎03-04-2008

How would we (if possible) suspend a server remotely, i.e. without having to login to the device and issue manual commands? We'd like to set up a web page for our developers to be able to login to the page, and click a button to take a server out of service (during content upgrades, for example) and then click a button to put it back in service. We did this "way back when" with Local Directors, but somebody else put all of that together.

Thanks for any help!

tonycody · ‎03-04-2008

Forgot to say this is for a CSS11501.

tonycody · ‎03-04-2008

Forgot to say this is for a CSS11501.

Diego Vargas · ‎03-04-2008

Hi,

Well not sure if this is what you need but you can suspend using the web GUI, or configure a command schedule to suspend the service at a specific time.

Also We do have a product called HSE. It uses SNMP with our content networking products and can suspend services remotely.

Also, you can can push XML documents to the CSS.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/ps792/products_configuration

_guide_chapter09186a0080157809.html

Other than these options I can not think of a way to suspend a service other than being on

the CSS.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps150/products_installation_

and_configuration_guide_chapter09186a0080226940.html#wp1050871

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps150/products_user_guide_list.html

Hope it helps!!

Diego M

tonycody · ‎03-05-2008

Thanks - we'll look at the XML option. HSE has been EOL'd, and its successor has also been EOL'd.

dlance · ‎06-02-2008

Did you ever get this working via xml. We have tried using xml to suspend a service and it causes our redundant CSS config to failover.

Dave

tonycody · ‎06-02-2008

We haven't tried as of yet. Got derailed by higher priorities and have yet to get this back on the agenda.