Powering Off A Brocade Switch; Powering Off A Brocade Enterprise-Class Platform - Brocade Communications Systems 53-1001763-02 Administrator's Manual

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Switch and enterprise-class platform shutdown

Powering off a Brocade switch

The following procedure describes how to gracefully shut down a switch.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the sysShutdown command.
3. At the prompt, enter y.
4. Wait until the following message displays:
5. Power off the switch.

Powering off a Brocade enterprise-class platform

1. From the active CP in a dual-CP platform, enter the sysShutdown command.
2. At the prompt, enter y.
3. Wait until you see the following message:
4. Power off the switch.
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switch:admin> sysshutdown
This command will shutdown the operating systems on your switch.
You are required to power-cycle the switch in order to restore operation.
Are you sure you want to shutdown the switch [y/n]?y
Broadcast message from root (ttyS0) Wed Jan 25 16:12:09 2006...
The system is going down for system halt NOW !!
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 0
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
Unmounting all filesystems.
The system is halted
flushing ide devices: hda
Power down.
NOTE
When the sysShutdown command is issued on the active CP, the active CP, the standby CP, and
any AP blades are all shut down.
DCX:FID128:admin> sysshutdown
This command will shutdown the operating systems on your switch.
You are required to power-cycle the switch in order to restore operation.
Are you sure you want to shutdown the switch [y/n]?y
HA is disabled
Stopping blade 10
Shutting down the blade....
Stopping blade 12
Shutting down the blade....
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) Fri Oct 10 08:36:48 2008...
The system is going down for system halt NOW !!
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