Technical Note: How to Power Down appliances in High Availability configuration

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Description
Follow this procedure when powering down appliances in a High Availability configuration.  If Primary Servers are in control at the time of power down, this ensures the Primary Servers will be in control when they are powered up. 

Solution

From the CLI:


1. On all servers (starting with Primary Servers) run the command:
shutdownCampusMgr

2. Wait 30 seconds.

3. On all servers run
shutdownCampusMgr -kill

4. On all servers, run
halt


Power up appliances in the following order to ensure Primary Server is in control:
1. Primary Application Server
2. Primary Control Server
3. Secondary Application Server
4. Secondary Control Server

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