Shutting Down the System

Use the following procedure to shut down the system.

Caution

Caution

Before you unplug the AC power cord, always perform the following shutdown procedure.

This procedure:

  • Flushes any pending data to ensure data integrity.

  • Ensures the completion of recent configuration save actions, thus preventing the system from inadvertently booting up with incorrect configuration.

Procedure

  1. Enter Privileged EXEC mode:

    enable

  2. Shut down the system:

    sys shutdown

  3. Before you unplug the power cord, wait until you see the following message:

    System Halted, OK to turn off power

Example

Shut down a running system.

Switch:1#sys shutdown
Are you sure you want shutdown the system? Y/N  (y/n) ? y
CP1  [05/08/14 15:47:50.164] 0x00010813 00000000 GlobalRouter HW INFO System shutdown initiated from CLI
CP1  [05/08/14 15:47:52.000] LifeCycle: INFO: Stopping all processes
CP1  [05/08/14 15:47:53.000] LifeCycle: INFO: All processes have stopped
CP1  [05/08/14 15:47:53.000] LifeCycle: INFO: All applications shutdown, starting power down sequence
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
Stopping OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdno /usr/sbin/sshd found; none killed
Stopping vsp...Error, do this: mount -t proc none /proc
done
sed: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
sed: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
sed: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
Deconfiguring network interfaces... done.
Stopping syslogd/klogd: no syslogd found; none killed
Sending all processes the TERM signal...
Sending all processes the KILL signal...
/etc/rc0.d/S25save-rtc.sh: line 5: /etc/timestamp: Read-only file system
Unmounting remote filesystems...
Stopping portmap daemon: portmap.
Deactivating swap...
Unmounting local filesystems...
[24481.722669] Power down.
[24481.751868] System Halted, OK to turn off power