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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 81
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Basic connections
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Broadcast message from root (ttyS0) Wed Jan 25 16:12:09 2006...
The system is going down for system halt NOW !!
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 0
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
Unmounting all filesystems.
The system is halted
flushing ide devices: hda
Power down.
5. Power off the switch.
Powering off a Brocade Backbone
Use the following procedure to power off a Brocade Backbone device:
1. From the active CP in a dual-CP platform, enter the sysShutdown command.
NOTE
When the sysShutdown command is issued on the active CP, the active CP, the standby CP, and
any application blades are all shut down.
2. Enter y at the prompt.
3. Wait until the following message displays:
DCX:FID128:admin> sysshutdown
This command will shutdown the operating systems on your switch.
You are required to power-cycle the switch in order to restore operation.
Are you sure you want to shutdown the switch [y/n]?y
HA is disabled
Stopping blade 10
Shutting down the blade....
Stopping blade 12
Shutting down the blade....
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) Fri Oct 10 08:36:48 2008...
The system is going down for system halt NOW !!
4. Power off the switch.
Basic connections
Before connecting a switch to a fabric that contains switches running different firmware versions,
you must first set the same port identification (PID) format on all switches. The presence of
different PID formats in a fabric causes fabric segmentation.
• For information on PID formats and related procedures, refer to Chapter 3, “Performing
Advanced Configuration Tasks”.
• For information on configuring the routing of connections, refer to Chapter 4, “Routing Traffic”.
• For information on configuring extended inter-switch connections, refer to Chapter 25,
“Managing Long-Distance Fabrics”.