Booting in maintenance mode from the command line

Follow these procedures for booting in maintenance mode from the command line.

To issue the maint_boot operation from the client, enter:

nimclient -o maint_boot -a spot=SPOTNAME

To issue the maint_boot operation from the master, enter:

nim -o maint_boot -a spot=SPOTNAME CLIENT

To verify that the maintenance boot operation worked:

On the client, enter:
```
nimclient -l -l ClientMachineObjectName
```
On the master, enter:
```
lsnim -l  ClientMachineObjectName
```

If the operation was successful, the client's Cstate output will look similar to the following:

Cstate = maintenance boot has been enabled

For the machine to boot into maintenance mode, follow the procedure for issuing the BOOTP request from the client. If you are booting from a network device, follow the procedures in your hardware documentation to perform the network boot.