Shutting Down Microsoft Windows
Shut down the Windows operating system on HP Integrity servers by using the
Start
menu or
the
shutdown
command.
CAUTION:
Do not shut down Windows using Special Administration Console (SAC)
restart
or
shutdown
commands under normal circumstances.
Issuing
restart
or
shutdown
at the
SAC>
prompt causes the server to restart or shutdown
immediately and can result in the loss of data.
Instead use the Windows
Start
menu or the
shutdown
command to shut down gracefully.
To shut down Windows use either of the following methods.
•
Choose
Shut Down
from the
Start
menu and choose either
Restart
or
Shut down
from the
pull-down menu.
The
Restart
menu item shuts down and restarts the server. The
Shut down
menu item
shuts down the server.
You can use this method when using a graphical interface to the server.
•
Issue the
shutdown
command from the Windows command line.
For more information, see
“” (page 101)
.
You can issue this command from a command prompt through the Special Administration
Console (SAC) or from any other command line.
The Windows
shutdown
command includes the following options:
/s
Shuts down and halts (power off) the server. This is the equivalent of
Start—>Shut Down, Shut down
. To power on the server, use the iLO 2 MP
PC
command.
/r
Shuts down and restarts the server. This is the equivalent of
Start—>Shut Down,
Restart
.
/a
Aborts a server shutdown.
/t
xxx
Sets the timeout period before shutdown to xxx seconds. The timeout period
ranges from 0–600, with a default of 30.
See the
help shutdown
Windows command for details.
Windows Shutdown from the Command Line
From the Windows command line, issue the
shutdown
command to shut down the operating
system.
1.
Log in to Windows running on the server that you want to shut down.
For example, access the system console and use the Windows SAC interface to start a
command prompt, from which you can issue Windows commands to shut down the server.
2.
Check to see whether any users are logged in.
Use the
query user
or
query session
command.
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