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01-16-2008, 04:48 PM
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 HP Workstation Shutdown Does anyone know if there is a command for HP Workstations that will remotely power off the workstations? The shutdown command will halt the system, but then the power switch must be manually pushed in order to turn the system off. Otherwise (if the system is shut down but the power switch is NOT used to turn the power off), then the system will attempt to reboot after a power outage. I'm not particularly concerned about what type of command will do the powering off. I.e. HPUX, prom, etc. For instance, on the old Sun hardware I used to use, you could run "init 5" and the system would phyically power off if possible. In my environment we have lots of workstations and we like not to have to physically walk to each one to power them off when (for instance) building power is being worked on. TIA, Chris O.      |
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01-16-2008, 04:48 PM
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| Re: HP Workstation Shutdown In comp.sys.hp.hardware Chris O <mz314w@yahoo.com> wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a command for HP Workstations that will > remotely power off the workstations? The shutdown command will halt > the system, but then the power switch must be manually pushed in > order to turn the system off. Otherwise (if the system is shut down > but the power switch is NOT used to turn the power off), then the > system will attempt to reboot after a power outage. > ... > In my environment we have lots of workstations and we like not to > have to physically walk to each one to power them off when (for > instance) building power is being worked on. I think that perhaps the newer Itanium-based workstations may have that option, but I'm not certain. Turning the problem on its head, since you would still have to walk from system to system after the power work was complete, you could instead disable autoboot. Then the remote execution of the shutdown command, while not powering the machine down, would at least have the side effect of leaving it in a state where it would not try to reboot when the power came back on. The downside is that if the systems crash in the middle of the night (as unlikely as that is with an HP-UX workstation  it would not comeback online without manual intervention. rick jones -- portable adj, code that compiles under more than one compiler these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to raj in cup.hp.com but NOT BOTH... |
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