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Starting Up and Shutting Down the System
4.8 Shutting Down the System
8. The procedure prompts you to specify one or more shutdown options, as
follows (if your system is not a member of an OpenVMS Cluster environment,
the procedure lists only the REBOOT_CHECK and SAVE_FEEDBACK
options):
Shutdown options (enter as a comma-separated list):
REMOVE_NODE Remaining nodes in the cluster should adjust quorum
CLUSTER_SHUTDOWN Entire cluster is shutting down
REBOOT_CHECK Check existence of basic system files
SAVE_FEEDBACK Save AUTOGEN feedback information from this boot
DISABLE_AUTOSTART Disable autostart queues
Shutdown options [NONE]
Specify the options you want to use. Choose from the options in the following
table:
Option Description
REMOVE_NODE Causes other nodes in the cluster to decrease the value
of the EXPECTED_VOTES system parameter. (This
parameter is automatically increased each time a node
joins the cluster.) Specifying REMOVE_NODE will not
decrease the EXPECTED_VOTES below the quorum
value.
Use this option if the node you are shutting down
will be out of the cluster a considerable period of
time.
When you use this option, all locally attached disks
are dismounted clusterwide. Therefore, you must
shut down applications on other nodes that have
open files on the locally attached disks. Failure to
do so might cause mount verify timeout problems as
well as application problems.
CLUSTER_SHUTDOWN Synchronizes the shutdown of a cluster; only when the
shutdown of each node has progressed to a certain point
will the shutdown be completed.
Use this option on each node in the cluster to
synchronize the shutdown.
REBOOT_CHECK Verifies the presence of files necessary to reboot the
system after shutdown completes.
The procedure checks for the necessary files and
notifies you if any are missing. Replace missing files
before proceeding.
SAVE_FEEDBACK Records feedback data collected from the system since
it was last booted and creates a new version of the
AUTOGEN feedback data file, which AUTOGEN can use
the next time it runs.
For detailed information about using the AUTOGEN
feedback mechanism, see Section 15.4.1.
DISABLE_AUTOSTART Specifies the time interval between the DISABLE
AUTOSTART/QUEUES command and system shutdown.
For more information, see Section 14.7.1.9.
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