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...
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Jun 10, 2011
Any chance you can take a node out of service globally instead of having to do it on a pool by pool basis? For patching, our OPs group has batches of servers they remove from service, wait for draining and then patch them. Is there a good PS script that would take a batch of servers and take them OOS at the node level and then put them back in when ready?