FOR/WHILE COMMAND how to halt/boot all the containers/zones with a for/while command (Solaris 10/11)
FOR COMMAND HOW TO HALT/BOOT (Containers/Zones) with a FOR command 1.- List zones / containers in running state in order to check what zones you need stop/boot after finishing the task that you perform on the global zone # zoneadm list -v ID NAME STATUS PATH 0 global running / 1 zone1 running /zones/zone1 2 zone2 running /zones/zone2 3 zone3 running /zones/zone3 6 zone4 running /zones/zone4 7 zone5 running /zones/zone5 8 zone6 running /zones/zone6 9 zone12 running /zones/zone12 12 zone15 running /zones/zone15 14 zone16 running /zones/zone16 19 zone17 running /zones/zone17 2.- Send the zones list to a file only with the NAME of the zones to zones.txt file #zoneadm list -v | awk '{print $2}' | egrep -v global >> zones.txt 3.- List the information capture in order to verify zones.txt # cat zones.txt 4.- Halt Zones with a for command # for i in `cat zones.txt`; do zoneadm -z $i halt; done 5.- Boot Zones with a for command # for i in