Taking the MCT node offline for maintenance
If you need to take an MCT device offline for maintenance or an upgrade, perform the following steps to minimize traffic loss.

Note
Do not write the configuration changes made in the previous steps to the startup-configuration file.To bring the MCT node back online, perform one of the following actions.
- If you upgraded or downgraded the device, select the coldboot option under the firmware download menu.
- For any other reason, execute the reload system command. Since the changed configuration was not saved, the reload reverts the configuration changes that had taken the MCT node offline.