stopengine

Shuts down the operating system and powers off one or more storage engines.

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>>-stopengine--+--------+--+---------+--+--------+-------------->
               +- -?----+  '- -quiet-'  '- -hard-'
               +- -h----+
               '- -help-'

>--+-engine_name-+---------------------------------------------><
   '- - ---------'

Parameters

–? | –h | –help
Displays a detailed description of this command, including syntax, parameter descriptions, and examples. If you specify a help option, all other command options are ignored.
–hard
Powers off the specified engines without first shutting down the operating system. If not specified, this command shuts down the operating system before powering off the storage engines.
–quiet
Turns off confirmation messages for this command.
engine_name
Specifies the name of the storage engines to power off.
Specifies that you want to read the names of one or more storage engines to power off from stdin (for example, – << /work/engine_list.txt).

Prerequisites

You must have Operator or Administrator privileges to use the command.

Description

You can stop and restart the local engine, but you cannot start the local engine.

An engine is not powered off until the time that is indicated by the PowerOff delay threshold property (displayed by the statengine command). Wait this amount of time before you run another stopengine or startengine command.

Example

Power off an engine The following example shuts down the operating system and then powers off engine ST1:
sfscli> stopengine ST1
Are you sure you want to stop engine ST1? [y/n] Y
A start request has been sent to Engine ST1.
Tip: Run the lsengine command for current Engine status.

Parent topic: Administrative commands

Related reference
lsengine
restartengine
startengine
statengine

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