You may want to stop a node if you want to replace hardware or software on the machine, and you need to stop the machine.
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| Caution | Do not stop a node if its mirror node is not running, because this may force the database into a Non Operational state. For details about node status, see "Getting the Status of the HADB". | 
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To stop a node in the database, use the hadbm stopnode command. The syntax is as follows:
hadbm stopnode [--no-repair] nodeno [dbname]
 For example:
hadbm stopnode 1
 
The hadbm stopnode command options are listed in the following table.