1. You may want to quiesce a device during maintenance.

2. Run "tfsservicecontrol quiesce" to shut down all TFS services.

3. You may need to briefly quiesce an application for the (very short) duration of the snapshot process.

4. You can transparently start or quiesce members to the application in such a way that the application is unaware a change has occurred.

5. The Toolkit will quiesce a domain before configuration changes or firmware upgrades are applied.

6. It also helps you quiesce and unquiesce DataPower devices and domains for maintenance,(/quiesce.html) and it supports operations on single unmanaged devices that do not belong to a ManagedSet.

7. Quiesce database is to put database in maintenance mode with no application connected to it.

8. On the other hand, in DB2 LUW, Quiesce will be in persistent lock-mode that can be applied on instance, database or table space to restrict normal users while you perform maintenance tasks.

9. In the event of a failure, you simply quiesce the test workload and let the DB2 standby assume the load of the failed server without consideration for throughput reduction.

10. After making this selection, the quiesce checkbox option is enabled.

11. The db2stop quiesce command waits for that UOW to be completed before stopping that member.

12. Quiesce Database - You can explicitly disconnect all applications or you can use this new quiesce database feature.

13. Quiesced Update 0x2 A table space is in this state when the application that invokes the table space quiesce function has exclusive write access to the table space.

14. First make sure that all applications are disconnected by issuing the command db2 force applications all or the quiesce command.

15. Quiesced Exclusive 0x4 A table space is in this state when the application that invokes the table space quiesce function has exclusive (read or write) access to the table space.

16. For example you may want to change the default domain quiesce settings.

17. If you are doing continuous log restore on a secondary system as an emergency standby, run the following commands to complete restoring logical logs and quiesce the server.

18. For example, to drain member 1 with a ten minute timeout, run the command db2stop member 1 quiesce 10.

19. For example, you can specify that you want to quiesce the database prior to the backup.

20. Generates common commands such as start and stop of databases, quiesce, etc.