When you freeze a service group, VCS continues to monitor the service group, but does not allow it or the resources under it to be TAKEN offline or brought online. Failover is also disable even when a resource faults. When you unfreeze the SG, it start BEHAVING in the normal way.

To freeze/unfreeze a Service Group temporarily :

# hagrp -freeze [service-group]
# hagrp -unfreeze [service-group]

To freeze/unfreeze a Service Group persistently (across REBOOTS) :

# hagrp -freeze -persistent[service-group]
# hagrp -unfreeze [service-group] -persistent 
Communication FAILURES : Jeopardy, split brain

When you freeze a service group, VCS continues to monitor the service group, but does not allow it or the resources under it to be taken offline or brought online. Failover is also disable even when a resource faults. When you unfreeze the SG, it start behaving in the normal way.

To freeze/unfreeze a Service Group temporarily :

# hagrp -freeze [service-group]
# hagrp -unfreeze [service-group]

To freeze/unfreeze a Service Group persistently (across reboots) :

# hagrp -freeze -persistent[service-group]
# hagrp -unfreeze [service-group] -persistent 
Communication failures : Jeopardy, split brain