The shutdown command halts the NIOS appliance. The appliance is designed to operate continuously. However, if you want to halt the appliance you can do so with the shutdown command.

Note: Once you shutdown the appliance using this command, you must manually bring it back up.

Syntax

shutdown

This command has no arguments.

Example

The following example uses the shutdown command.

Infoblox > shutdown
SHUT DOWN THE SYSTEM? [y or n] y

Note: On a Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), the shutdown command restarts the Riverbed device instead of
halting it. Infoblox recommends that you use the Riverbed no rsp enable command to perform a
shutdown.