How to perform soft reboot in the fortigate firewall

[Yogendra002]

Hello,

I want to know, how to do soft reboot firewall from fortimanager.

Basically, we need to do shutdown firewall from fortimanager and then restart it after 4 hours from same fortimanager.

How it will work?

[ebujedo]

Hi Yogendra002,

Maybe this can help you, sending scripts from FMG to FGTs
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortimanager/7.2.0/administration-guide/910004/schedule-a-script

the script needed for rebooting would be:
"execute reboot

y

"
Be aware of pressing enter after the last line

Regards.

Ezequiel

[aahmadzada]

Just to remind, this approach indeed will soft shutdown the Fortigate.

But it will NOT allow you to turn it back after x amount of time.

You`ll have to power it on physically unless the Fortigate you have is a 5/6/7K chassis.

Ahmad