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 (eg using the 'Search for anything' box).
• Click the 'Update' button to modify the rule
• Change the priority to "10000" and click the "Save Changes" button
• Remove any filter to double check that shut off rules has highest priority, so that it overrides all other rules

The load balancer will serve cached responses for a few minutes then all responses should be <updates></updates>.

This affects all products, including Firefox, Thunderbird, GMP, SystemAddons, B2G, etc.

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.