Managing Serviceguard Fifteenth Edition, reprinted May 2008

Building an HA Cluster Configuration
Managing the Running Cluster
Chapter 5274
Although the cluster must be halted, all nodes in the cluster should be
powered up and accessible before you use the cmdeleteconf command. If
a node is powered down, power it up and boot. If a node is inaccessible,
you will see a list of inaccessible nodes together with the following
message:
It is recommended that you do not proceed with the
configuration operation unless you are sure these nodes are
permanently unavailable.Do you want to continue?
Reply Yes to remove the configuration. Later, if the inaccessible node
becomes available, you should run the cmdeleteconf command on that
node to remove the configuration file.