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fhosein_133661
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Sep 16, 2013

What is the proper way to shutdown BIG-IP F5?

I need to power down my both BIG-IP LTM load balancer, what is the most proper way to do thid?  
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Kevin_Davies_40
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Sep 16, 2013

Actually if you want them to shutdown then power off use the following.

shutdown -hP now

h means halt.

P means power off.

If it is a physical device it should power off. If it's a virtual the guest operating system will power down.