Deleting a Cluster Export Services node from an IBM Spectrum Scale cluster

Use this information to delete a Cluster Export Services (CES) node from an IBM Spectrum Scale™ cluster.

On the node that you want to delete from the cluster, issue the following command to determine if it is a member of the file audit logging message queue.
```
# mmmsgqueue status
```
If the node is not in the list or if file audit logging was never configured, proceed to step 2.

If the node is in the list, it is either a broker or a ZooKeeper. Therefore, file audit logging must be disabled for all file systems. Follow steps 1-5 in Enabling file audit logging on a new spectrumscale cluster node to disable it.
On a node other than the one you want to delete from the cluster, issue the following command to suspend the node.
```
# mmces node suspend –N <Node_to_Delete>
```
On the node that you want to delete from the cluster, issue the following commands to stop the CES services.
```
# mmces service stop nfs
# mmces service stop smb
# mmces service stop obj
```
In this example, it is assumed that all three protocols are enabled on the node that you want to delete from the cluster.
On a node other than the one you want to delete from the cluster, issue the following command to disable CES on the node.
```
# mmchnode –N <Node_to_Delete> --ces-disable
```
On a node other than the one you want to delete from the cluster, issue the following command to shut down GPFS™ on the node.
```
# mmshutdown –N <Node_to_Delete>
```
On a node other than the one you want to delete from the cluster, issue the following command to delete the node from the cluster.
```
# mmdelnode –N <Node_to_Delete>
```
If you disabled file audit logging in step 1, you can enable it by following the instructions in Enabling file audit logging on a file system.