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How to shutdown a PA-4020

PGDSNetworks — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:01:29 GMT

We need to shutdown a PA-4020 on 3.1.5 for relocation. "request restart system" no longer works. Does anyone know the new command line command?

Thanks

Re: How to shutdown a PA-4020

James — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:09:34 GMT

Hi There,

There is no command to do a shutdown - you can just pull the power.

The command to restart the system in 3.1.5 is as per the command you gave. Maybe you're in configure mode and not in the top level CLI structure - i.e. where you enter after login.

Thanks

James

Re: How to shutdown a PA-4020

PGDSNetworks — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:05:40 GMT

OK, Thanks James. I actually meant "request shutdown system". Seems odd not to have a shutdown on the firewall.

Thanks

Nick

Re: How to shutdown a PA-4020

James — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:38:10 GMT

We're not a standard Linux System using IPTables and so on

Pull the power and have no fear.

Thanks

James

Re: How to shutdown a PA-4020

frank_henry — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:53:31 GMT

If there are hard disks writing configs, potential jobs pending, database transactions and you pull the plug you do not risk corruption without orderly shutdown??

Re: How to shutdown a PA-4020

michael_schumak — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:18:13 GMT

Normally you can indeed simply shutdown a box without any problems. Just to make sure, I would connect via SSH to the box and use 'request restart system" to make sure everything was written to the harddrive. The box will do a reboot and then I would poweroff it.

Mike