Powering off a Brocade switch
Use the following procedure to gracefully shut down 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. Enter y at the prompt.
4. Wait until the following message displays:
5. Power off the switch.
Powering off a Brocade Backbone
Use the following procedure to power off a Brocade Backbone device:
1. From the active CP in a dual-CP platform, enter the sysShutdown command.
2. Enter y at the prompt.
3. Wait until the following message displays:
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 application 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 !!
Switch and Backbone shutdown
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