ReleaseEngineering/How To/Shut off all updates

On occasion we need to shut off all updates for all products/branches. This could happen because of a disastrous update scenario, a downtime, or some other unforeseen reason.

Shutting off updates

• Go to the Balrog Admin interface's rules page, VPN is required.
• Find the rule with "Global shut off" in its "Comment" field. Change its priority to "10000" and click its "Update" button. Double check that the priority is the highest, so that it overrides all other rules

Re-enabling

• Go to the Balrog Admin interface's rules page.
• Find the rule with "Global shut off" in its "Comment" field. Change its priority to "1" and click the "Update" button.