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CLI command to disable power supply

Mohammed_Malik — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 08:51:53 GMT

Does anyone know of a command to disable one of the power supplies on a PA5000 series firewall (for the 7.0 software train) please? I need to disable one of the power supplies on a remote firewall and dont have the option of pulling the cable manually.

Re: CLI command to disable power supply

reaper — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:13:42 GMT

Could you elaborate on why exactly you'd want to disable the power supply? (if there's a good use-case you may want to open a feature request with your local sales team)

there is no command to disable a PSU

Re: CLI command to disable power supply

Mohammed_Malik — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:21:52 GMT

Hi Reaper,

Thank you very much for replying.

I've been tasked with trying to simulate a power supply failure and track the end-to-end response ie:

-Power supply goes down

-Trap issued

-Alert received

-Action taken

One way to do this is to book an change window and travel to the datacentre to pull the power lead, but it would be simpler if i could shut one of the power supplies down remotely, like on some network switches. If this isnt possible then can you think of any other way to issue a 'power supply failure' trap from the device?

Re: CLI command to disable power supply

BPry — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:27:44 GMT

I don't think there is a way to simulate this short of pulling the power to the power supply. This wouldn't be a bad thing to actually put in a feature request for though, I can see why may want to test this periodically to make sure everything is triggering as it should.

Re: CLI command to disable power supply

Mohammed_Malik — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:40:23 GMT

Hi BPry,

Thanks for confirming. I'll put a feature request in for it, although for the purposes of this test i'll probably have to travel to site and yank the cable out. As you suggest, this will probably be a periodic test, so if it is accepted as a feature it'll help further down the line.