Catalyst 6500/6800 and 9300 Series Successful Shutdown

[lisandro]

Dear very good morning,

I want to ask you if there is a procedure for the correct shutdown of the Catalyst 6500/6800 and 9300 series switches.

That is, a total shutdown, not a reboot.

Sorry if the question is very silly but I have searched and I need to be sure and what should I take into account before doing a total shutdown

I already have my backup copy of the configuration and IOS

Thank you very much in advance as always

[Giuseppe Larosa · Accepted solution]

Hello @lisandro ,

as far as I now there is no shut down procedure for Catalyst 6500 and likely Cat 6800.

A Catalyst 6500 could be simply powered off and then powered on and it should be able to restart and restore its state and configuration.

I would expect the same for Cat 9300 I have some doubts about IOx (   if you are using IOx container applications you may want to stop them usig the Local manager before power off).

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[Leo Laohoo]

Non-chassis based:  Save the config and pull the power. 

Chassis-based: 

1.  Save the config 

2.  Do a continuous ping to the IP address of the chassis

3.  Issue the "reload" command

4.  Once the ping stops, pull the power immediately.