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Shivkumar
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reboot and shutdown the servers

Dear Sirs,

Which are tghe best commands to "reboot" and "shutdown" the hpux servers ? Can we do it as a powerbroker user or will need to login as a root on the console ?

Do we need to take backup of any config files in case servers fails to come up successfully ?

Thanks,
Shiv
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Jeff_Traigle
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

shutdown is the preferred command to use since it runs through the init.d scripts to bring things down gracefully.

Any user defined in /etc/shutdown.allow can use the shutdown command. No need to be logged on the console either, though that is typically preferred so you can watch the enter boot process for problems.
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

Shalom Shiv,

reboot is quick and does not run the shutdown scripts. It can and has corrupted data and databases in the past.

it is much faster.

shutdown is the right way to go especially for critical systems with critical data on them.

shutdown runs the shutdown scripts as planned in the init/shutdown setup.

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James R. Ferguson
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

Hi Shiv:

'reboot' is really the last step of 'shutdown'. 'shutdown' causes your '/sbin/init.d/*' "stop" sequences to run while 'reboot' does not. Therefore, it is appropriate and wise to do 'shutdown' whenever possible.

Regards!

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James R. Ferguson
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

Hi SHiv:

I should add that you can enable a non-root user to run the 'shutdown' command by adding the user to the '/etc/shutdown.allow' file.

See the manpages for 'shutdown(1M)' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...
Deoncia Grayson_1
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

the reboot command kills all processes instead of gracefully terminating them, it speeds the boot process up but it may cause data lost/corruption

you should use the shutdown -r to reboot your server gracefully...

you can add users to the shutdown.allow file which is located in /etc which give user rights to run the shutdown command.
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Raj D.
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

Hi Shiv,

Here is something:

1. If you have not rebooted/shutdowned the server long time, it is a good practice to keep all the configuration data backed up, incase of any problem. [ Nickel and cfg2html is good. ]

2. You can issue # shutdown -r -y 0
To reboot the server.

And # shutdown -h -y 0
To Halt.

3. You can login to console , to use the reboot to check for any error messages in console . You can use sudo or powerbroker , but rebooting/shutdown from console gives you much flexibility.


Enjoy,
Cheers,
Raj.
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Hoang Chi Cong_1
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

Hi Shivkumar
As I think there isn't "best command to reboot and shutdown" a HP-UX server :)
As HP engineer recommendation: should'n give "root" permission to any other user for security reason!

The most importance things in your question is: Was reboot or shutdown process effected to your applications?
The answer is: It depend on your applications!
In my system, before reboot or shutdown the server, I always shutdown all my application for example: Oracle, DB2, etc...

Of course, you need to backup all your application for saving data and application configuration including backup importance volume group (vg00 like an example).

Hope this helps
Hoang Chi Cong
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Indrajit_1
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

Hi;

The Best command to Shutdown and Reboot a hp unix Server is ..

To shutdown..
#shutdown -yh 0

To Reboot..

#shutdown -yr 0

To execute this command either u should have root access or u should have sudo permission.

cheers
indrajit
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Joseph Loo
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Re: reboot and shutdown the servers

hi,

it depends on needs, a good doc on whether u like to reboot or shutdown:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90672/ch02s06.html

as to whether backup is essential, it depends as well. if u have not shutdown for a very, very long time, and intent to leave the system down for a day or 2, it will be good to backup and also make_tape_recovery, cause u never know if the disks will fail.

regards.
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