Power Off a Line Card

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Caution - Before beginning this procedure, have a replacement line card or replacement line card filler prepared and standing by for immediate installation. A quick exchange is necessary to maintain chassis thermal management.

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1. Identify the prerequisite and subsequent tasks you must perform in conjunction with this procedure, to achieve a goal.

   See the table in Servicing the Line Cards.

2. Power off the line card, using the deactivate and disableboard commands.

   For example, if you are removing line card 8:

   # deactivate lc 8
   Deactivating LC 8
   Pigeon Point Shelf Manager Command Line Interpreter
        Command issued via IPMB, status = 0 (0x0)
        Command executed successfully
   #

   # disableboard lc 8
   lc 8 is M1 state, turning off stby
   STBY for lc 8 is off
   #

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   Note - Once deactivated and disabled, the links provided by the line card are now lost. The Subnet Manager will attempt to establish new routes for those links while you continue the procedure.

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3. Remove the line card.

   See Remove a Line Card.

Related Information

• Switch Reference, deactivate command

• Switch Reference, disableboard command

• Power On a Line Card

• Power Off a Power Supply

• Power Off a CMC

• Power Off a Fabric Card