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# admin_offline

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.admin_offline"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">admin\_offline</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">offline</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L14744"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Take the system offline. When the system is offline, no user operations can be performed with the exception of a system shutdown.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">offline (<span className="em">bool</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Set to true if desired state is offline. Allowed values are:</p>

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              <p>Optional parameters. Allowed keys are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>flush\_to\_disk</strong> – Flush to disk when going offline. Allowed values are:</p>

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                      <p>true</p>
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              <p>The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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              <p>Returns true if the system is offline, or false otherwise.</p>
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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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