Shutting down or restarting the server

To shutdown or restart the server use the command orbit shutdow.

caution

The shutdown is immediate. No scheduling. The shutdown procedures performed by this command ensure that services will be shut down correctly avoiding problems in cluster environments.

mt4adm@vmdf-giskard:~$ sudo orbit shutdown --help
Usage: orbit shutdown

Power-off or reboot the machine safely.

Flags:
      --help      Show context-sensitive help.

  -r, --reboot    Reboot the machine

To shut down the server, just use the command orbit shutdown.

mt4adm@vmdf-giskard:~$ sudo orbit shutdown
The server system will shut down. Are you sure you want to proceed: y
Stopping database service...

To reboot the server, use the –reboot argument together with the orbit shutdown command.

mt4adm@vmdf-giskard:~$ sudo orbit shutdown --reboot
The server system will shut down. Are you sure you want to proceed: y
Stopping database service...