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Error while initiating node halt

dcabs — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:08:36 GMT

Hello, do pardon me if I'm not expressively clear with my situation. Quite new to NetApp and the Powershell CLI.

So I was trying to initiate shutdown of my FAS2750 storage, I initiated the command "Stop-NcNode -Name *". However, I face with this error attached per photo. Not too sure what went wrong, I did read through the cmdlet help, seems like hitting dead end too.

I'm using the latest Powershell Toolkit 9.7.1.

Any solution or help is greatly appreciated!

Re: Error while initiating node halt

maffo — Thu, 21 May 2020 05:32:48 GMT

hi @dcabs

I believe the CMDlet is passing an option to ONTAP which is not clearly understood.

What version of ONTAP are you trying this on? You can check it by running Get-NcClusterImage

I have tested this with toolkit 9.7 and an ONTAP 9.5 I have here and I'm seeing your same behavior.

Re: Error while initiating node halt

dcabs — Thu, 21 May 2020 11:42:06 GMT

Unfortunately, I will be out of office till next week.

If my memory serves me right, it's currently on 9.5P1.

Re: Error while initiating node halt

anungw — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:34:38 GMT

Hi All, is there any solution for this error? I encountered the same error.

ONTAP version 9.7P6

Powershell toolkit 9.7.1

Re: Error while initiating node halt

anungw — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:39:57 GMT

Hi @dcabs , are you able to solve the issue?

Re: Error while initiating node halt

anungw — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:02:47 GMT

I managed to halt the node using Invoke-SystemApi -RequestXML $xmlDoc

$xmlDoc = New-Object system.Xml.XmlDocument
$xmlDoc.loadXml("<system-node-shutdown>
<node></node>
<ignore-quorum-warnings>True</ignore-quorum-warnings>
<is-inhibit-takeover>True</is-inhibit-takeover>
<is-skip-lif-migration-before-shutdown>True</is-skip-lif-migration-before-shutdown>
</system-node-shutdown>")
$nodeshut = $xmlDoc."system-node-shutdown"