Operation Manual – System Maintaining and Debugging
H3C S3610&S5510 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 3 Device Management
3-2
Follow these steps to reboot a device:
To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Reboot a device
reboot
Optional
Available in user view.
Enable the scheduled reboot
function and specify a specific
reboot time and date
schedule reboot at
hh:mm
[
date
]
Enable the scheduled reboot
function and specify a reboot
waiting time
schedule reboot delay
{
hh:mm
|
mm
}
Optional
The scheduled reboot
function is disabled by
default.
Execute the command
in user view.
Caution:
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The precision of the rebooting timer is 1 minute. One minute before the rebooting
time, the device will prompt “REBOOT IN ONE MINUTE” and will reboot in one
minute.
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The execution of the
reboot
,
schedule reboot at
, and
schedule reboot delay
commands can reboot a device. As a result, the ongoing services will be interrupted.
Be careful to use these commands.
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If a primary boot file fails or does not exist, the device cannot be rebooted with this
command. In this case, you can re-specify a primary boot file to reboot the device, or
you can power off the device then power it on and the system automatically uses the
secondary boot file to restart the device.
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Make sure that either the primary or the backup boot file or both are in normal use,
when using the
schedule reboot
command to enable the scheduled reboot
function.
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If you are performing file operations when the device is to be rebooted, the system
does not execute the command for the sake of security.
3.2.2 Specifying a Boot ROM File for the Next Device Boot
A Boot ROM file is an application file used to boot the device. When multiple Boot ROM
files are available on the storage device, you can specify a file for the next device boot
by executing the following command.