It would be great to be able to script the pause and unpause of task servers so that during maintenance, software installations, windows updates and clarity upgrades we could include the stop and start of tasks to minimize the interference between the tasks and whatever IT work needs to be done.
This is now available with the ClarityAdminTool in Clarity 2020.0.
It's a great idea and something that we'll build in soon. In the meantime, and you're handy with SQL this can be done by setting the IsPaused = 1 to all rows in the TaskProcessor table, and then setting them back to zero when you're done.
While Task Servers are in this state, they can ask for tasks, but no new tasks will be given to them. So they'll finish what they're working on and not take anything more.
