Remote Power down

chezlong · Jul 1, 2009, 11:18 AM

Is it possible to remote power down pfsense?

GruensFroeschli · Jul 1, 2009, 11:52 AM

Yes.

chezlong · Jul 1, 2009, 11:54 AM

:D

How?

GruensFroeschli · Jul 1, 2009, 12:03 PM

;D
"Diagnostics" –> "Halt System"

Alternatively you can go to the "Diagnostics" --> "Command Prompt" and shut down the same way you would shutdown your standard FreeBSD. ( # shutdown -h now )

chezlong · Jul 1, 2009, 12:06 PM

on my system this does not power down, merely halts system,

thx!

GruensFroeschli · Jul 1, 2009, 12:15 PM

Yeah. But with the command prompt way it should shut down completely.

chezlong · Jul 1, 2009, 12:22 PM

yeah, tried that already, thanks for the response

the console then shows '#' and does not power down

GruensFroeschli · Jul 1, 2009, 12:36 PM

Try
shutdown -p now

(at least this powers my virtual box pfsense off and doesnt halt it)

chezlong · Jul 1, 2009, 1:21 PM

Thx, now machine gets to reboot prompt, however does not power down…

I feel a rebuild coming on

chezlong · Jul 1, 2009, 4:01 PM

rebuild, would seem a hardware issue, as the machine is older, PIII 550

mhab12 · Jul 1, 2009, 4:21 PM

Sounds to me like your box doesn't support ACPI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface