Hello @cyborg , Thank you for reaching out to Community! There are two ways to place a node in maintenance mode. 1) Select the host --> Select Actions for Selected > Begin Maintenance (Suppress Alerts/Decommission). The Begin Maintenance (Suppress Alerts/Decommission) dialog box opens. The role instances running on the hosts display at the top.Deselect the Decommission Host(s) option and Click Begin Maintenance. The Host Decommission Command dialog box opens and displays the progress of the command. To Exit Maintenance : Select the host --> Select Actions for Selected > End Maintenance > Deselect the Recommission Host(s) option and Click End Maintenance. This will re-enable alerts for the host. By using first option, It does not prevent events from being logged; it only suppresses the alerts that those events would otherwise generate. You can see a history of all the events that were recorded for entities during the period that those entities were in maintenance mode.This can be useful when you need to take actions in your cluster (make configuration changes and restart various elements) and do not want to see the alerts that will be generated due to those actions. For more details, refer https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-14-x/topics/cm_mc_maint_mode.html#cmug_topic_14_1 2) Select the host --> Select Actions for Selected > Begin Maintenance (Suppress Alerts/Decommission). The Begin Maintenance (Suppress Alerts/Decommission) dialog box opens. The role instances running on the hosts display at the top > Select Decommission Host(s). If the selected host is DataNode role, you can specify whether or not to replicate under-replicated data blocks to other DataNodes to maintain the cluster's replication factor. If the host is not running a DataNode role, you will only see the Decommission Host(s) option and Click Begin Maintenance.The Host Decommission Command dialog box opens and displays the progress of the command. To Exit Maintenance : Select the host --> Select Actions for Selected> Select Recommission Host(s). > choose to bring hosts online and start all roles or choose to bring hosts online and start roles later > Click End Maintenance. By using the second option, You can perform minor maintenance on cluster hosts such as adding memory or changing network cards or cables where the maintenance window is expected. In your case: you can suppress alerts, follow the 1st path that you described in the question (for taking down single node for few hours, when no under-replicated factor and your replication factor is more than 1)
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