Database Software

For example - when you bounce a node or a node crashes, the vip for that node then floats to a surviving node- works great.

When you want to apply the security patches to the nodes in the cluster, you typically issue srvctl stop nodeapps -n node1.

When you do that, the vip obviously shuts down as well on node1. With customers using the TAF entry, new connections will pause if the connection attempts to connect to node1 first - node1's vip is down - but will eventually connect.

Is there a way to shutdown nodeapps on node 1, and manually fail the vip from node1 over to node2 and run the security patch on node1?

This way no delays would be seen by customers -

Thanks in advance -