The effects of the service processor power management commands differ from one vendor’s service processor to another. The possible options are described in the following table. If a service processor provides more than one of the options shown, the hard option is performed.
Power cycle (turn power off, then on again, to reboot the server)
• Hard power cycle: remove the power, wait several seconds, and then turn the power on again (to reboot the server)
• Soft power cycle: shut down the operating system, wait several seconds, and then turn power on again