[Info-vax] New installment in The OpenVMS Consultant: Shutdowns using STARTUP.COM

[David Jones]

On Sunday, December 27, 2020 at 9:26:25 AM UTC-5, geze... at rlgsc.com wrote:
> The latest installment of The OpenVMS Consultant has been posted. 
> 
> OpenVMS STARTUP.COM is far more than a tool for controlling system startup. It can also be used to accomplish a phased Shutdown of a complex environment. 
> 
> See http://www.rlgsc.com/blog/openvms-consultant/shutdown-using-startup.html 
> 

The biggest hazard to an orderly shutdown is that you terminal session goes when the network is shut off, leaving your system in a partially shutdown state.
I changed my shutdown symbol from "@sys$system:shutdown ..." to "$SYSMAN SHUTDOWN NODE /minutes=..." (appending /auto/save as needed).