Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Installation Guide
Chapter 4 Maintenance Window Activities
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Stop System Components
Maintenance Window
CAUTION:
You need to be in a maintenance window to complete the
remaining procedures in this chapter, as well as in the
following chapter.
You need to be in a maintenance window to complete the
remaining procedures in this chapter, as well as in the
following chapter.
Suspend Billing Transactions
If you have not already done so, contact the billing vendor and ask that all
transactions be suspended until after the upgrade is complete.
transactions be suspended until after the upgrade is complete.
Stop All Third-Party Utilities
All third-party utilities should be stopped for the upgrade to succeed. Consult with
the system operator about which third-party utilities may be running on the system
and then stop them.
Important: If third-party utilities are not stopped, the upgrade may fail.
the system operator about which third-party utilities may be running on the system
and then stop them.
Important: If third-party utilities are not stopped, the upgrade may fail.
Stopping the System Components
Follow these instructions to stop the system components.
1
1
In the Application Server xterm window, type exit and press Enter to switch to
the dncs user.
2
Complete the following steps to stop the processes on the Application Server.
a
Type the following command and press Enter. The Application Server
processes stop.
appStop
b
Type the following command and press Enter. The initd process on the
Application Server is shut down.
appKill
c
Type the following command and press Enter to determine if the processes
have stopped. The processes are stopped when there are no processes listed
in the output.
in the output.
pgrep -fl dvs
d
Change to root user on the Application Server and type the following
command and press Enter to disable cron jobs.
svcadm –v disable –s cron