Scheduling reboot?

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May 6, 2011
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Hi, Is there any system setting which could reboot Fortigate 80c at regular intervals, eg once a month? If there' s none, is there any way to send a " reboot" command through network to it? TIA

ede_pfau

SuperUser

Hi, there is, kind of:

config system global      set daily-restart          disable    disable daily reboot of the fortigate         enable     enable daily reboot of the fortigate    set restart-time          <hh:mm>    use colon to connect hour and minute values

NB, that' s daily! AFAIK there is no " remote" reboot command in FortiOS. I doubt this would be a good idea in a security device. Of course, you can always log in via ssh and " exe rebo" but that is interactive only. I wouldn' t even think of using telnet + an expect script...

Matthijs

New Member

Don' t use telnet on a security device ;-) There are ways to do this from a linux machine very simple, but why do you want to reboot on a regular base? It' s not windows but it' s Fortigate. They both have problems but that doesn' t mean they are solved with the same solution ;)

horiniusAuthor

New Member

Only " daily reboot" ...!? Oh, no thanks. Why do I want a regular reboot? Because until yesterday, I' ve been receiving an expired IMAP certificate for GMail issued by the Fortigate; the expiration time was something like 22/4/2011. Then yesterday after I rebooted the FGT, the certificate has a new expiration date (somewhere in February 2012)! So I figure out it might be a good idea to reboot it regularly. That might also help on other invisible things. Who knows!