This chapter describes how to start up and shut down nodes on the SP system. It explains how to specify the sequence in which the nodes and subsystems in your system are started up and shut down. It also describes the tools that save you time and effort by operating on all or some of the nodes in your SP system with a single command. These tools include the cstartup, cshutdown, and seqfile commands, plus the files they use to control the sequence of startup or shutdown processing.
This chapter describes the interface that lets you coordinate the shutdown of a subsystem that operates across multiple nodes.