Below you can see my cluster is Online within vrop admin

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Open postman, change the URL to POST, add the below URL next to POST but replace the ip address with either your vrops master/primary node or VIP address

POST https://172.168.1.52/casa/sysadmin/cluster/online_state

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Click authorization tab, change type to Basic Auth, put in your admin credentials for vrops

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Click body tab, click raw and JSON is selected in the drop down, Copy the below to the body

{
“online_state”:”OFFLINE”,
“online_state_reason”:”OFFLINE”
}

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Click Headers tab and ensure the below Key and Value is in the list, if not then add it

Value Key

Accept – application/json

Content-Type – application/json

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Click Send

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You can see the vrops cluster is going offline

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Its offline

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You can use postman to bring it back online as well, by Modifying the body to the below and click Send

{
“online_state”:”ONLINE”,
“online_state_reason”:”ONLINE”
}

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It’s going back online

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Its online now

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By Kader