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Contributor III
September 2, 2008
Question

Urgent-FG restarts by itself

  • September 2, 2008
  • 9 replies
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please someone help... FG-300 restarts automatically by itself, everything related to power(cable,ups,...)was tested but it still reboots. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Kamyar

    9 replies

    laf
    New Member
    September 2, 2008
    What do the logs say about this ? Did you start a ticket to Fortinet ? Seems to be a hardware problem; anyway you could use an UPS to see what s happening.
    Contributor III
    September 2, 2008
    event logs just shows " system restart" ,no more details, if i config syslog server does FG send " Event Logs" to the server? Best, Kamyar
    laf
    New Member
    September 2, 2008
    How often it' s restarting? Did you try with the UPS test ? The syslog server will collect all the logs you send, not only the Event logs, still I think would be more useful to use a SNMP server in order to collect information about the HW status of the equipment.
    UkWizard
    New Member
    September 2, 2008
    get a serial console capture setup, this should tell you exactly what the problem is. As the gui and syslog crashes no messages are seen usually. Also, does it have a hard drive or is it part of a cluster? a dead hard drive can cause this, especially when in a cluster.
    gfubrad
    New Member
    September 3, 2008
    I recently updated the firmware on my FG-800 to 3.0 MR7 and after a couple weeks it did a system restart two days in a row. I was using internet at the time these restarts happened and it seemed to cause a 5-15 second outage... not the 2 minute outage I would expect with a reboot/power cycle. I have a ticket open with support - current status is " researching"
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    September 3, 2008
    15 second restart? I would love that! Maybe resources are being maxxed out... Conserve mode??
    gfubrad
    New Member
    September 17, 2008
    Follow up to my current system restart issue; I have a ticket open with Fortigate Support, I' ve capture console messages at time of failure that show a kernel panic, I' ve downgraded firmware from 3.00-b0726(MR7) to 3.00-b0662(MR6 Patch 1) at Supports request to see if it is firmware related. Current support status is PendBugFix.
    FortiRack_Eric
    New Member
    September 17, 2008
    Kernal panic, is 99 out of 100 times an upload of a corrupt image. Please connect console cable, boot, select boot options, format boot device and tftp new image to the fg unit then restore config
    gfubrad
    New Member
    November 10, 2008
    Just thought I' d post the latest: Support says " the BUG will be fixed in MR6P4 and MR7P2" .
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