As long as your clients are ok with losing np messages then this should work, but in the general case I don't think is acceptable. I would prefer a situation where you can flick a switch on the jmx console to prevent any new connections being created on a node, then query the console to find out who (ip address? client id? machine name?) the clients are, then the sys admin can kindly find those clients and cleanly shut them down. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4003776#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...