Reboot and Schedule option

Zyxel_Charlie

This discussion was created from comments split from: Reboot and Schedule option ?
Description:
The reboot button into the firewall. "Maintenance" -> "Schedule" and the firewall can be schedule rebooted  or on a specific date
Charlie

DennizOlof

Yes, thanks.

Reboot option to prevent user error with firmware section of the firewall, and schedule function for rebooting the device after time, days etc. You can use a script but I think it would be great if you had a limited version of this in the GUI. Reboot after time, days, last day of every month etc.

Would be nice to have. Not super important but still nice.

Anyway the reboot option is easy to bring back.

Thanks.

DennizOlof

I am doing a short followup to this post.

Conclusion, no reboot function is needed in the web interface, scripting was so easy and the FAQ had all the information I needed. Would still be nice with that additional reboot button but now that I know my firewall reboots once every month I do not need to worry any more that it is going to lock up or fail.

Create the script txt file, and upload if to the firewall. It should contain.

configure terminal
reboot

Then you need to access the firewall shell with telnet or SSH. This is the command to use, it is in the manual and looks like this.

schedule-run 1 file_name.zysh {daily | monthly | weekly} time {date | sun | mon | tue | wed | thu | fri | sat}

Now do this, and you are done.

configure terminal
schedule-run 1 reboot_device.zysh monthly 04.00 02
write

This will reboot the device every month at 04.00 in the morning the second day in the current month.
Also make sure you got SNTP (NTP) working to use this script function.

There is more information in the FAQ posted by zyxel.

milo