How to Pause and Reactivate a Server

Stop a server's traffic instantly — for maintenance, an incident, or an upstream outage — without losing any of its configuration.

Steps

1. Open the server and go to its Settings tab.

   

   

2. Find the server controls panel and toggle Pause.

   

   

Confirm it worked

The server shows a Paused status chip, and MCP calls to it are rejected until reactivated.

To reactivate

Go back to the same panel and toggle the server back on.

Good to know

• Pausing keeps every tool, resource, prompt, and setting exactly as it was — nothing is deleted.
• The same panel also has a maintenance-mode option and an availability window, for more granular control than an all-or-nothing pause.

Related

• MCP Server Management