You can stop the services with the following: (another option is just to use restart, I like stop, verify all processes are gone/down then do the start when needed.)     Cloudera Manager Server: (stop agent, stop the server, stop database if using local postgres default ) sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-agent stop sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-server stop sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-server-db stop   Do the reverse to start:   sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-server-db start sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-server start sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-agent start   On the other nodes of  your servers in the cluster just stop/restart the agent. sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-agent stop sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-agent start or sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-agent restart     You can do the following to get a status of the services as well.   sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-server-db status sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-server status sudo /sbin/service cloudera-scm-agent status   May want to do a ps -ef |grep cloudera-scm to verify all processes are stopped on each server. ... View more