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iControl Apps - #04 - Graceful Server Shutdown

This question comes up quite often here on DevCentral: "How can I gracefully shut down my servers for maintenance without disrupting current user sessions?".  In fact, I answered this question just t...
Published Jul 17, 2008
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Nov 12, 2010
@Jon - The script doesn't deal with health monitors. It just goes through the shutdown process without truncating existing connections.

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