How to Perform a Graceful Shutdown

Since PAN-OS 5.0, the option to gracefully shut down a device is supported.  During a graceful shut down, the device performs the following tasks:

• All login sessions are logged off.
• Interfaces are disabled.
• All system processes are stopped.
• Existing sessions are closed and logged out.
• System Logs are created to show the administrator name who initiated the shutdown.  If this log entry cannot be written, a warning will appear and the system will not shut down.
• Disk drives are cleanly unmounted and the device powered off.

Note: Any configuration changes that have not been saved or committed will be lost.

There are two ways to perform a graceful shut down.

• Via GUI:
  • Click on Device tab > Setup link > Operations tab.
  • Click on shutdown device under device operations. 
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  • Click Yes on the confirmation prompt.
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  • Wait a few minutes for the shutdown process to complete.
• Via CLI:
  • Issue the command: request shutdown system

    Sample output.

    > request shutdown system

    Warning: executing this command will leave the system in a shutdown state. Power must be removed and reapplied for the system to restart. Do you want to continue? (y or n)

  • Wait until  System Halted is displayed on the console.

Unplug the power source and plug it back for the device to power up.

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