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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users emergency shutdown best practices. Post 302245077 by broli on Thursday 9th of October 2008 09:36:56 AM

10-09-2008

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Originally Posted by jsw371

You have really opened my eyes broli.

I was hoping that the scripts in the /etc/rc*.d files would bring down services,applications, etc...

I am so screwed because I have no clue what is happening on most of the servers. You see I am a dba and was tasked with this "side" project because I new unix shell scripting. I was given a server list and told to create an emergency shutdown script that will bring the servers down quickly, but not painfully like a recent power failure did. I still do not know why this was not assigned to syseng. (We are way under-staffed in syseng).

its a matter of how much pressure you can create.
how much you can force other depts in the company to give you the info, or how much you can sustain when they dont, and your script destroys their data

on a side note, try your best, and ask for money :P

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pwrkap_aggregate(8)						   User Manuals 					       pwrkap_aggregate(8)

NAME

       pwrkap_aggregate - Present a large number of pwrkap servers as if they were one

SYNOPSIS

       pwrkap_aggregate config_file

DESCRIPTION

       pwrkap_aggregate  is  a	daemon that connects to a multitude of pwrkap servers and power control domains, and presents them as if they were
       one server with a smaller number of domains.  By aggregating pwrkap server instances, it is possible to monitor many thousands  of  servers
       without	overworking the command console.  It is also possible to give identical class designations to a group of pwrkap servers and manage
       them as an aggregate.

OPTIONS

       config_file
	      Text file mapping pwrkap servers to aggregated domains.  See pwrkap_aggregate(5) for information about the config file format.

AUTHOR

       Darrick J. Wong <djwong at us dot ibm dot com>

SEE ALSO

       pwrkap_gtk(1), pwrkap_cli(1), pwrkap_aggregate(5), pwrkap_main(8)

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