Varying the SL3000 Offline

Vary SL3000 components offline to ACSLS before they are powered off, if they are inoperative, and before you open an SL3000 access door. This notifies ACSLS that they are unavailable. Once they are available, vary them back online.

Use ACSLS to vary SL3000 components offline, not SL Console

Vary SL3000 components (ACSs, LSMs, and CAPs) offline to ACSLS, not the SL Console.

ACSLS allows outstanding requests to complete before taking components offline, unless it is a vary offline force. The SL Console has no knowledge of outstanding requests to ACSLS.

Varying components offline using SL Console may cause requests in progress to fail.

When to vary SL3000 components offline to ACSLS

This section describes when to vary components offline to ACSLS.

Before Opening the Access Door

Before opening the SL3000 access door, issue the following command to vary the ACS offline:

vary acs acs_id offline

Note:

If any CAPs in the SL3000 are in automatic mode, you must:

Set the CAPs to manual mode before opening the access door.
Set the CAPs back to automatic mode after you close the access door and the SL3000 comes back online.

If a CAP is inoperative

If a CAP is inoperative, issue the following command to vary it offline:

vary cap cap_id offline