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Would someone walk me through the steps to power cycle a Cisco MDS 9506 FC switch? It would help if you would provide a link to relevant documentation for this procedure. I must perform a power maintenance related outage this weekend and I want to make sure I have all the steps handy.

What would be the CLI command I need to execute for this to take effect?

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If you've written your config to flash and your hosts are 'expecting' the outage then you can just physically switch the PSUs off or issue a 'reload' command via SSH, serial etc. To power it one, well...power on the PSUs.

If you've not written your config to flash, do that.

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Hi chopper3 - a quick question :To copy the startup-config to flash as a file say backupconfig, we can use the command:"copy startup-config flash:backupconfig" My question is how should i set up the backupconfig file? Plus, servers will be brought down as well – wildchild Mar 16 '11 at 17:56
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that command would create the backupconfig file, you don't need to set it up – Chopper3 Mar 16 '11 at 18:02
Thanks, Say if have to retrieve it at some point , where and how can this be done?basically, where should i be looking for this file to retrieve , is there a similar command to do this like creating? – wildchild Mar 16 '11 at 18:05
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you'd just use the same copy command to copy it to a different name, it's just a min file system – Chopper3 Mar 16 '11 at 18:11
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1) make sure config is saved 2) remove plug 3) re-insert plug

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Thanks zypher ..can you please describe a little more , or if there a good doc i can go through? I will be doing this for the first time..so any help would be appreciated? Like the cLI command. – wildchild Mar 16 '11 at 17:45
what code version are you on? – Chopper3 Mar 16 '11 at 18:03
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