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Old 05-10-2010
power off during weekend
Hello,
I would like to turn off (mean no energy consumption) some servers during the weekend.
I would like to do it automatically so i thought to create macro commands to a shell client.The problem is that giving shutdown (shutdown -h now) the server(Sun X4200 M2) turn off but the fans are still working.Do you have any idea how to power off the element?
# 2  
Old 05-10-2010
crontab the job.

shutdown -y -g0 -i5 should power off completely.
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Old 05-10-2010
Have you tried running shutdown with the -P switch, or poweroff directly?
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Old 05-10-2010
@Celtic_Monkey This works for Solaris OS but i am running also SLES.Sorry i didn't define that

@pludi I tried also this command with no result.

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If i do this using crontab can i also power on the servers on Monday morning (for example) using crontab?
Last edited by @dagio; 05-10-2010 at 08:43 AM..
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Old 05-10-2010
What version of SLES?

Sounds like you have an issue with ACPI or apm module?

have you tried forcing acpi?
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Old 05-10-2010
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Originally Posted by @dagio
If i do this using crontab can i also power on the servers on Monday morning (for example) using crontab?
Generally, computers don't do anything while they're off.

wake-on-lan is possible but that'd mean another computer on the same local network sticking around to send it the wake-up signal later. Sometimes you can find special timed wake-up options in the BIOS itself though.
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