[j-nsp] difference between "halt" and "power-off"

[Joshua Atterbury]

Agree that's it's platform based. With the branch srx ( they have power button ) power off shuts the unit down and powers off. Halt stops all processes but power is still applied

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On 15/06/2011, at 10:12 PM, Martin T <m4rtntns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michel, Chuck:
> 
> It looks like "request system halt" and "request system power-off"
> work differently on different platforms. With M10i for example they
> both seem to do the same thing(turn routing-engine to offline) like
> Chuck mentioned for EX2200/EX4200 switches. Any other
> thoughts/experiences?
> 
> regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 2011/6/15 Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu>:
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:22:57PM -0700, Michel de Nostredame wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Martin T <m4rtntns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What is the difference between "request system halt" and "request
>>>> system power-off" under JUNOS? Is there a possibility to completely
>>>> turn off the router remotely(for example in case of Cisco it's
>>>> impossible)?
>>>> 
>>>> regards,
>>>> martin
>>> 
>>>> From my experience that power-off will "shutdown the power of the
>>> device", if the device could be powered off such as J-series routers.
>>> If the system is powered-off, you need someone / something to press
>>> the power button to bring it up. This is something like you power-off
>>> your laptop PC.
>>> 
>>> The halt will kill all processes and stand-by there, so you can press
>>> any key in console to bring up the system remotely.
>> 
>> With EX2200/EX4200 at least, they both do effectively the same
>> thing--I don't think there is any way to actually power off an EX
>> switch from software.
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