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1: Operation Procedures
Powering On and Off
The power-on and off procedure varies with your system setup. See the SGI Management Center
Administration Guide for Clusters , (P/N 007-6358-00 x ) for a more complete description of system
commands.
Note: The cpower commands are normally run through the administration node. If you have a
terminal connected to an administrative server, you should be able to execute these commands.
Console Management Power (cpower) Commands
This section provides an overview of the console management power (
cpower
) commands for
the SGI ICE XA system.
The
cpower
commands allow you to power on, power off, reset, and show the power status of
multiple or single system components or individual racks.
The
cpower
command is, as follows:
cpower <option...> <target_type> <action> <target_list>
Example
cpower
command arguments are listed and described in Table 1-1.
See Table 1-2 on page 11 for examples of the
cpower
command strings.
Table 1-1 cpower option, action, target type and target list descriptions
Argument Description
Option
-h | --help Show this help message and then exit.
-w | --wait
Wait for certain operations, (verification waiting timeout).
-i seconds |
--interval= seconds
Specifies how long a target component’s LED will stay lit. This is valid with
the “identify” action (see the action descriptions). Specify a number of
seconds or use 0 to turn off the LED immediately. Also valid with
reboot ,
reset
and
on
actions.
-u | --no-umatched Unmatched target messages will be suppressed in the command output.
-v | --verbose
Report command progress details and all errors.