Managing Superdome Complexes: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Booting and Resetting Superdome Partitions

Procedures for Booting and Resetting Partitions

Chapter 5258

Shutting Down HP-UX on a Partition

When HP-UX is running on a partition, you can shut down HP-UX using

either the shutdown command or the reset command.

On Superdome servers you have the following four options when

shutting down HP-UX:

• Shut down HP-UX and halt the partition.

• Shut down HP-UX and reboot the partition.

• Perform a reboot-for-reconﬁg of the partition.

• Reboot the partition and keep it at a ready-for-reconﬁg state.

These options are discussed in the procedure that follows. For details see

the shutdown (1M) or reboot (1M) manpages.

HP-UX Use the following procedure when shutting down HP-UX on a partition.

Step 1. Log in to HP-UX running on the partition.

You can log in to HP-UX on the partition either by directly connecting

with telnet or rlogin, or by logging in to its complex’s GSP and

accessing the partition’s console. Connecting through the GSP allows you

to maintain partition console access after HP-UX has shut down.

Step 2. Issue the shutdown or reboot command with the appropriate

command-line options.

NOTE The reboot command does not invoke the shutdown scripts associated

with subsystems. The shutdown command invokes the scripts and

terminates all running processes in an orderly and cautious manner.

The command-line options you specify dictate the wayin which HP-UX is

shut down, whether the partition is rebooted, and whether any partition

conﬁguration changes (adding or removing cells) take place.

You can perform this task using HP-UX commands.

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