# Utilities

System administrators have access to a utilities panel with the following options:

- **Reindex all searchable data:** Execute
- **Toggle Maintenance Mode:** Enable

NOTE

Maintenance mode cleanly places HPE Morpheus Enterprise into a state where maintenance can be performed on the appliance. This drains any active sessions and queues so an auto-scaling group can scale down. It also drains active sessions across services. Restarting HPE Morpheus Enterprise UI disables maintenance mode.

NOTE

When using HPE Morpheus Enterprise in a Highly Available (HA) environment, it is important to navigate to a node directly and enable maintenance mode, as opposed to using the load balancer virtual IP (VIP). A local host entry to the specific node may be required to ensure the correct node enters mainteance mode. In fact, it is recommended to use the [analogous API endpoint](https://apidocs.morpheusdata.com/reference/setappliancesettingsmaintenancemode) to toggle a specific node into maintenance mode to avoid redirects back to the VIP address.

A HPE Morpheus Enterprise node in maintenance mode can still be accessible through the load balancer VIP/target group and can queue requests but will not process anything in queue, while in maintenance mode. A node can be removed/paused from the load balancer VIP or have VIP health checks implemented, if the node UI/API will become inaccessible due to maintenance.
