Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing manual Procedure 24 Software powerdown

518Chapter 17: Hardware upgrade

Procedure 24: Software powerdown

1Log in as maint. The default password is maint.

2At the Òmaint>Ó prompt, type powerdown and press [Return].

The following messages appear:

Figure 292

Powerdown messages 1

Would you like to power down or reboot?

Powering down allows you to turn the system off.

Rebooting will automatically restart the system.

Enter p to power down, r to reboot, or q to quit:

3Type p and press [Return] to confirm that you wish to power down.

The following messages appear:

Figure 293

Powerdown messages 2

Running subcommand 'powerdown' from menu 'machinemgmt',

MACHINE MANAGEMENT

Note: If more than one user is logged in to the system, a list of the logged-in users will appear on the screen.

Users currently		logged in:
disttech	console		Oct 26	13:38
root	tty01		Oct 25	21:20
Once started, a		powerdown CANNOT BE STOPPED.

Do you want to start an express powerdown? [y, n, ?, q]

4A list of logged-in users appears. You are prompted to start an express powerdown. Type y and press [Return].

If you wish to alert all users currently logged in to the system of the powerdown, type n and press [Return]. If you do, you are prompted to enter the number of seconds the system should wait after the warning message. Type the number of seconds that will allow the users to save their work and log off. Then press [Return].

The messages shown in Figure 294 appear on the screen.

553-3202-210 Standard October 1998