Appliance recovery operationsWhen the appliance restarts, it performs the following operations:

Detects tasks that were in progress and resumes those tasks, if it is safe to do so. If the appliance cannot complete a task, it notifies you that the task has been interrupted or is in some other error state.

Attempts to detect differences between the current environment and the environment at the time the appliance shut down, and refreshes its database with the detected changes.

If you determine that the appliance data does not match the current environment, you can request that the appliance refresh the data for certain resources, such as enclosures.

Appliance recovery during a firmware update of a managed resource

If the appliance shuts down during a firmware update of a managed resource, when the appliance restarts, it detects the failed update and marks the firmware update tasks as being in an error state. To update the firmware for this resource, you must reinitiate the firmware update task.

22.1.2.1What to do when an appliance restarts

The online help provides information about using the user interface or the REST APIs to:

Check for critical alerts or failed tasks and follow the provided resolution instructions

Manually refresh a resource if the resource information displayed appears to be incorrect or inconsistent

Create a support dump (recommended for unexpected crashes to help support personnel to troubleshoot a problem)

Update firmware for a resource, if a firmware update task was in progress when the appliance shut down.

22.1.3 Shut down the applianceUse this procedure to perform a graceful shutdown of the appliance.

Prerequisites

Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator.

Ensure that all tasks have been completed or stopped, and that all other users are logged off.

Shutting down the appliance1.From the Settings screen, select ActionsShut down.

A dialog box opens to inform you that all users will be logged out and ongoing tasks will be canceled.

2.Select Yes, shut down in the dialog box.22.1.4 Restart the appliance

Use this procedure to perform a graceful shutdown of the appliance and restart it. You are returned to the login screen.

Prerequisites

Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator.

Ensure that all tasks have been completed or stopped, and that all other users are logged off.

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