Shutdown Delay (to allow shutdown scripts to execute)

[Scharbag]

I have a shutdown script that runs on shutdown. It causes all my ESXi VMs that rely on TrueNAS to shutdown. Problem is that they usually take longer to shutdown than TrueNAS, so the iSCSI share goes away before all the VMs are properly shutdown.

Is there a simple way to pause the shutdown? This would also help when the UPS shutdown happens too. Just need 60 seconds or so.

Thanks for the help, sorry if it is an easy setting (but I cannot find it).

Cheers,

 

[winnielinnie]

Perhaps under the Tasks -> Init/Shutdown Scripts, you can add a shutdown script that simply runs the command:

Code:

sleep 60

Not sure when exactly these scripts are executed, but I'd assume they'd execute before unmounting any datasets or stopping any services.

 

[Scharbag]

Perhaps under the Tasks -> Init/Shutdown Scripts, you can add a shutdown script that simply runs the command:

Code:

sleep 60

Not sure when exactly these scripts are executed, but I'd assume they'd execute before unmounting any datasets or stopping any services.

I tried putting a sleep command in my shutdown script but it seems to get ignored as I am initiating a shutdown from the GUI.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Cheers,

 

[Samuel Tai]

For the UPS shutdown, you may find this thread helpful.

How to add FINALDELAY to NUT upsmon.conf?

I'd like to add the FINALDELAY parameter to the NUT config file upsmon.conf. The web GUI does not allow this. What is the best way to work around it? Ultimately, I am trying to prevent TrueNAS, which is working as a NUT primary, from shutting down before the VM's that depend on it in a NUT...

www.truenas.com

 

[Scharbag]

For the UPS shutdown, you may find this thread helpful.

How to add FINALDELAY to NUT upsmon.conf?

I'd like to add the FINALDELAY parameter to the NUT config file upsmon.conf. The web GUI does not allow this. What is the best way to work around it? Ultimately, I am trying to prevent TrueNAS, which is working as a NUT primary, from shutting down before the VM's that depend on it in a NUT...

www.truenas.com

Yeah, saw that, But I do not need this just for UPS. More for regular maintenance - not a need, just lazy and would rather rely on my script to gracefully shit stuff off instead of digging into ESXi...

Thank you though!

 

[Samuel Tai]

For the regular shutdowns, use the API call, which includes a delay parameter:

midclt call system.shutdown <delay in seconds>

 

[Scharbag]

For the regular shutdowns, use the API call, which includes a delay parameter:

midclt call system.shutdown <delay in seconds>

Sorry for the n00b question, but is that a CLI command then? I guess that would work. Would be nice if you could just set a shutdown delay parameter in the GUI...

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

I think really a delayed shutdown is leading the horse by it's tail.

The proper way to do this is via a script that shuts down each VM, and when that VM and the other VMs are truely down the script calls the TrueNAS shutdown.

To do it the other-way-round assumes timing conditions today will be relevant every tomorrow.