---
title: "Deactivate a Service Fabric cluster node with the specified deactivation intent."
method: POST
path: "/Nodes/{nodeName}/$/Deactivate"
tags: ["Node"]
---

# Deactivate a Service Fabric cluster node with the specified deactivation intent.

`POST /Nodes/{nodeName}/$/Deactivate`

Deactivate a Service Fabric cluster node with the specified deactivation intent. Once the deactivation is in progress, the deactivation intent can be increased, but not decreased (for example, a node that is deactivated with the Pause intent can be deactivated further with Restart, but not the other way around. Nodes may be reactivated using the Activate a node operation any time after they are deactivated. If the deactivation is not complete, this will cancel the deactivation. A node that goes down and comes back up while deactivated will still need to be reactivated before services will be placed on that node.

## Path parameters

- `nodeName` string, required

## Query parameters

- `api-version` '6.0', required
- `timeout` integer

## Request body

- DeactivationIntentDescription — Describes the intent or reason for deactivating the node.
  - `DeactivationIntent` 'Pause' | 'Restart' | 'RemoveData' — Describes the intent or reason for deactivating the node. The possible values are following.

## Response `200`

A successful operation will return 200 status code.

## Other responses

- `default` — The detailed error response.

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