topic Re: FMC shut properly in Network Security

FMC shut properly

Ibrahim Jamil — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:20:59 GMT

Hello Guys

how can i shut Properly FMC from both CLI and GUI to avoid DB corruption

pls see attachment

thanks

Re: FMC shut properly

Marvin Rhoads — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:01:59 GMT

There was nothing attached but that's OK.

From the GUI, use the menu choice under Sytem > Configuration > Process to either shutdown, reboot or restart your FMC.

From the cli, use the console script with the same arguments.

Both are described here (with slightly different GUI menu location for the older Firesight Management Center 5.x):

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/firesight-management-center/118594-technote-firesight-00.html

Re: FMC shut properly

Ibrahim Jamil — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:11:39 GMT

Thanks

Re: FMC shut properly

anousakisioannis — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:30:24 GMT

@Marvin Rhoads If i shutdown FMC from System --> Configuration --> Process --> Shutdown Management Center and then i reboot the VM from vcenter, how the FMC will power on again?

Is there any command that i can run in FMC cli and turn it on or it will turn on by itself ?

Thank you

Re: FMC shut properly

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:33:28 GMT

When you restart the FMC server from the hypervisor the necessary processes will all startup automatically.

FMC puts the necessary startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d so the underlying RHEL knows to start it automatically.

Re: FMC shut properly

anousakisioannis — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 07:30:41 GMT

Hello Marvin,

Thank you one more time for your help and your valuable contribution on this community!!

Re: FMC shut properly

IT.DC — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:42:20 GMT

HI What will happen if i directly shut down FMC VM From Console? did it crash the DB

Re: FMC shut properly

anousakisioannis — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:01:19 GMT

Hello,

I have done twice and nothing happened but the appropriate way to do it, as every application, you should shut down FMC via console.

Re: FMC shut properly

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:57:43 GMT

It may or may not come back normally.

If you watch the messages from console when it restarts, you will see that it realizes it was not shutdown gracefully and it will try to recover from any errors. Usually it is successful but not always. when it fails it can leave you with a non-working server that you will have to restore from backup or - if there's no backup available - rebuild from scratch.

So:

1. Always shutdown gracefully if you can

2. Always have a recent backup available off-box. (or, even better, periodically shutdown gracefully and then snapshot the VM)