About maintenance mode
Some types of operations require that you take your GitHub Enterprise Server instance offline and put it into maintenance mode:
- Upgrading to a new version of GitHub Enterprise Server
- Increasing CPU, memory, or storage resources allocated to the virtual machine
- Migrating data from one virtual machine to another
- Restoring data from a GitHub Enterprise Server Backup Utilities snapshot
- Troubleshooting certain types of critical application issues
We recommend that you schedule a maintenance window for at least 30 minutes in the future to give users time to prepare. When a maintenance window is scheduled, all users will see a banner when accessing the site.
When the instance is in maintenance mode, all normal HTTP and Git access is refused. Git fetch, clone, and push operations are also rejected with an error message indicating that the site is temporarily unavailable. GitHub Actions jobs will not be executed. Visiting the site in a browser results in a maintenance page.
Enabling maintenance mode immediately or scheduling a maintenance window for a later time
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From an administrative account on GitHub Enterprise Server, in the upper-right corner of any page, click .
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If you're not already on the "Site admin" page, in the upper-left corner, click Site admin.
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In the left sidebar, click Management Console.
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At the top of the Management Console, click Maintenance.
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Under "Enable and schedule", decide whether to enable maintenance mode immediately or to schedule a maintenance window for a future time.
- To enable maintenance mode immediately, use the drop-down menu and click now.
- To schedule a maintenance window for a future time, use the drop-down menu and click a start time.
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Select Enable maintenance mode.
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Under the left sidebar, click Save settings.
Note: Saving settings in the Management Console restarts system services, which could result in user-visible downtime.
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Wait for the configuration run to complete.
Scheduling maintenance mode with the GitHub Enterprise Server APIs
You can schedule maintenance for different times or dates with the GitHub Enterprise Server APIs. For more information, see "Management Console."
Enabling or disabling maintenance mode for all nodes in a cluster
With the ghe-cluster-maintenance
utility, you can set or unset maintenance mode for every node in a cluster.
$ ghe-cluster-maintenance -h
# Shows options
$ ghe-cluster-maintenance -q
# Queries the current mode
$ ghe-cluster-maintenance -s
# Sets maintenance mode
$ ghe-cluster-maintenance -u
# Unsets maintenance mode