Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Manual - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000436-01, June 2007)

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reboot

Reboots the control processor (CP) in a switch or a director.

Synopsis reboot -f

Description Use this command to reboot a CP in a director or a switch.

When this command is issued on a switch, if the switch is part of a fabric, all traffic to and from that

switch stops. All Fibre Channel ports on that switch including E_Ports become inactive until the

switch comes online.

After performing a reboot, the following can occur:

• If rebooting the Standby CP, that CP goes down and there is no failover because there is no

traffic on that switch. The Standby CP will no longer be in sync with the Active CP.

• If rebooting the Active CP, it failsover to the Standby CP and the Standby CP becomes the new

Active CP. There will be traffic disruption.

• When HA is in sync, and reboot -f is issued on the Active CP of a director , the Standby CP takes

over as the active CP without traffic disruption.

• You are warned to commit to the roboot or not with the following:

Are you sure you want to reboot the active CP [y/n]?

The execution of this command is subject to Admin Domain restrictions that may be in place.

Operands -f Specifiy this operand when you want to failover to the Standby CP and not

affect any of the Fibre Channel Ports. Note that the recommended way to

force a failover without affecting any Fibre Channel ports is to issue the

hafailover command.

Examples To reboot a Control Processor:

switch:admin> reboot

Rebooting...

To reboot the CP to failover to the Standby CP:

switch:admin> reboot -f

Warning: This command is being run on a control processor (CP)

based system and will cause the active CP to reboot.

Are you sure you want to reboot the active CP [y/n]?

See Also fastboot, switchReboot, hafailover