Stop vRA/vRO services so no new user requests can be submitted

[newatlantis]

Is there an "easy" way to stop vRA/vRO services temporarily so no new user requests can be submitted -- say, before running a stored procedure on the SQL DB?

I see the extensive procedure for shutting down the entire distributed vRA installation in the Managing vRealize Automation publication.  I'm wondering if I really need to do all that if I just want turn off new requests for a few minutes while I run a (VMware-supplied) stored procedure on the SQL DB.

I was thinking of stopping these services on both vRA/vRO appliances. Wondering if that's OK -- or a bad idea:

service vcac-server stop

service vco-configurator stop

service vco-server stop

Thank you!

[GrantOrchardVMw]

Well, it depends on the experience you want... I would disable all "Services" so that there is nothing in the catalog and then run the procedure.

After it has completed, enable them again.

[newatlantis]

Thank you, Grant. Does stopping all services here basically mean to click "Shutdown" for each appliance on its vRA Administrator Management Interface (on the System tab)?

[GrantOrchardVMw]

Sorry, that wasn't a clear response at all now that I read it again.

Navigate to Administration > Catalog Management > Services.

Go through each of them and set to Inactive. This is a pretty clean way to do it - users won't be able to see any items in the Catalog this way, and you could (if on 7.2) set the Home portlet to display a maintenance message.

The alternative is to stop the services on the appliances and windows boxes as you've outlined and then restart them.