Technical Tip: How to Power Down appliances in High Availability configuration
Description
This article describes the procedure when powering down appliances in a High Availability configuration. If Primary Servers are in control at the time of power down, this ensures the Primary Servers will be in control when they are powered up.
Solution
From the CLI:
- On all servers (starting with Primary Servers) run the command:
shutdownNAC - Wait 30 seconds.
- On all servers run:
shutdownNAC -kill - On all servers, run:
halt
Power up appliances in the following order to ensure the Primary Server is in control:
- Primary Application Server.
- Primary Control Server.
- Secondary Application Server.
- Secondary Control Server.
For FortiNAC-F legacy, do the following on CLI:
execute service stop nac
execute shutdown
execute shutdown
Power up the appliances in the following order:
- Primary Node.
- Secondary Node.
Related articles:
Technical Tip: How to restart processes via CLI
Technical Tip: How to power down via Administration UI
Technical Tip: How to reboot Control and Application servers via CLI
Technical Tip: Reboot Control and Application Servers Configured for High Availability
Guide: Cli Reference Manual.