Safe power shutdown Catalyst 3850 49 port POE+ is there a command in console or ?

[bugs.yexley]

Safe power shutdown Catalyst 3850 49 port POE+ is there a command in console or ?

Does anyone know if there is another way to shut down these switches in a 3 stack matrix so software does NOT corrupt and have to tediously be rebuilt port by port, etc? There has to be a better way than ripping the power pugs out of the back and starting on a prayer $3 + K x 3, you have to be kidding!).  Bugs Yexley

Thanks!!!

[Diana Karolina Rojas]

I do not understand you very well, what do you want to do?

If you want a complete reset of the device you can use the reload command to do that, also you can program a reload too.

If you want to shutdown all the interfaces and turn on later you can use these commands:

config t

interface range fastethernet 0/1-48 

shutdown

no shutdown

!

but what is the reason do you want to do this?

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Regards,

[Diana Karolina Rojas]

In other hand If you want to shutdown the complete device you have to know that Cisco runs the image from flash to memory not from Hard Disk. So shutdown command is not required, just save your configuration and pull the power cable.

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[johnbehring]

Thanks! I double checked the documentation and this is correct.

[Dennis Mink]

there is no gracefull shut down on these, just the reload command,

but I have been powering off by cutting power for the last 20 years I work with Cisco, and never had an IOS  device fail on me

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[bugs.yexley]

I was hoping for a solution like "push the reset button upper left 8 times 1 second apart, and it will gracefully turn off" but NO.

But I will say thanks for the community answers so fast and you folks are EXCELLENT!! You need a pay raise, my phone call to Cisco went nowhere, wasted 20 min. Very polite and PC.

Further clarification;

We have various intermittent power outages and it seems after many outages, the configuration corrupted to the point the 3 x 48 matrix stack would not restart and was stuck in some boot up loop. We had no VOIP Phones, etc and had the risk of of not solved by Sunday night it would have affected 150 not being able to go to work Monday AM. SO,, it would seem prudent to do a "safe" shutdown, just like a cheap PC to avoid many IT hours of being put under the gun and pressure. This is the gist of my first question. [FYI; and we are getting a power line run EVENTUALLY from a standby generator to keep the APC UPS always running and this intermittent will be solved then].

In the meantime, I guess we will have to rip the power plugs (sorry for the 1st misspell!) one at a time from the rear. Sheesh!!!

I consider these 3850 and 3925 units to be mission critical to so many people and this seems to be an oversight considering the millions of $$ this Corp had spent in Cisco. My opinion.