The soft shutdown is an orderly shutdown of the platform and is also known as graceful shutdown. Soft shutdown is equivalent to pressing Start and then clicking the Shut-down and Ok buttons in a computer running the Windows operating system.
Following are the sequence of actions that are performed when you choose to soft shutdown a platform:
Partition images are shut down.
After all the partition images are shut down, the service partitions are shut down.
Platform management card hardware is powered off.
You can gracefully shutdown a platform, if the platform is in a powered-on state.
To perform soft shutdown
On the Fabric Manager user interface, point to System Administration, and then click CPF System.
The Details: CPF-System screen appears on the right pane.
Click Platforms and Partitions.
The platforms and partitions are listed under their respective tabs in the Details: Platforms and Partitions screen on the right pane.
In the Platforms tab, double-click the platform that you want to gracefully shut down.
The summary information about the platform appears.
In the Summary tab, click Soft-Shutdown.
A message asking if you want to shut down the platform appears.
Click Yes.
The selected platform gracefully shuts down.
Further Information
You must shut down multiple platforms one by one. Fabric Manager does not allow you to shut down all the platforms at the same time.