Halting diskless workstations before powering down

[Albert Pang]

Due to recent modification of the electric system in our building, we have
very frequent power transfers. (almost once every two weeks at some point)
There are over 30+ servers and over 100+ diskless workstations in the
building.  Each time a scheduled power transfer occur, the system
administration staff in different departments have to halt and power down
all equipment.

My question is,  is it necessary to 'halt' or 'fasthalt' an inactive
diskless workstation (e.g. SUN-SLC/NeXT) before powering down?
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Albert Pang		<albert at brahms.insl.mcgill.ca>
Information Networks & Systems Lab
McGill University