Disabling Acpi Soft-Off With The Bios - Red Hat CLUSTER SUITE FOR ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.1 Configuration Manual

management.
— OR —
•
chkconfig --level 2345 acpid off
2. Reboot the node.
3. When the cluster is configured and running, verify that the node turns off immediately when
fenced.
Tip
You can fence the node with the

3.2. Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with the BIOS

The preferred method of disabling ACPI Soft-Off is with
"Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with
not effective for your cluster, follow the procedure in this section.
Note
Disabling ACPI Soft-Off with the BIOS may not be possible with some
computers.
You can disable ACPI Soft-Off by configuring the BIOS of each cluster node as follows:
1. Reboot the node and start the
2. Navigate to the Power menu (or equivalent power management menu).
3. At the Power menu, set the Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN function (or equivalent) to Instant-Off
(or the equivalent setting that turns off the node via the power button without delay).
Example 2.10, "
BIOS CMOS Setup Utility
shows a Power menu with ACPI Function set to Enabled and Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN set
to Instant-Off.
Note
The equivalents to ACPI Function, Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN, and Instant-Off
— This command turns off
fence_node
Management"). However, if the preferred method is
chkconfig
BIOS CMOS Setup Utility
: Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN set to Instant-Off"
acpid
command or Conga.
management
chkconfig
program.
Fence Devices
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