Dell PowerConnect Brocade 300 Fabric OS Administrator's Guide v7.1.0 - Page 77

Switch and Backbone shutdown 2 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. 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 4. Wait until the following message displays: 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. 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. 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. 2. Enter y at the prompt. 3. Wait until the following message displays: 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 !! 4. Power off the switch. Fabric OS Administrator's Guide 77 53-1002745-02