Re: power down Dell PE1400 and PE350

["Joon" <joon@twofishy.net>]

I have a PowerEdge 350 and had to enable apmd in /etc/rc.conf (if I
remember correctly). Might work for you.

JOON

> I have a Dell PowerEdge 1400 and PowerEdge 350.  I'm unable to power
> them down with a "shutdown -p -h now".  They halt and I have to pull the
> plug on the PE350 and push the button on the PE1400.  Both servers are
> running OpenBSD3.1. I tried setting machdep.apmhalt=1 in
> /etc/sysctl.conf on the PE1400, but that didn't help.  I'm not sure if
> it's a BIOS issue or an OpenBSD one.  I haven't had any other OS's
> installed on either of these servers so I'm unsure if they would power
> down under a different OS.  The BIOS on both servers doesn't have any
> Power Management settings as do my other Dell OptiPlex OpenBSD machines
> that power down with no problem.  If anyone has had luck powering down
> these Dell servers or any other Dell PowerEdge server I'd appreciate
> help getting mine to do the same.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John Hines