Enabling A Switch; Switch And Enterprise-Class Platform Shutdown; Powering Off A Brocade Switch; Powering Off A Brocade Enterprise-Class Platform - Brocade Communications Systems 1606 Administrator's Manual

Enabling a switch

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.
2. Enter the switchEnable command.

Switch and enterprise-class platform shutdown

To avoid corrupting your file system, Brocade recommends that you perform graceful shutdowns of
Brocade switches and enterprise-class platforms. The following procedure describes how to
gracefully shut down a switch.
Warm reboot refers to shutting down the appliance per the instructions below, also known as a
graceful shutdown. Cold boot refers to shutting down the appliance by suddenly shutting down
power and then turning it back on, also known as a hard boot.

Powering off a Brocade 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.
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide
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All Fibre Channel ports that passed the POST test are enabled. If the switch has interswitch
links (ISLs) to a fabric, it joins the fabric.
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.

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