Rebooting A Card Or Switch Immediately At The Cli; Scheduling A Device Reboot - HP A7500 Series Configuration Manual

Power off and then re-power on the switch. This method might cause data loss and hardware
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damage, and is the least preferred method.
Reboot at the CLI enables easy remote device maintenance.
CAUTION:
A reboot can interrupt network services.
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To avoid data loss, use the save command to save the current configuration before a reboot.
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Use the display startup and display boot-loader commands to check that you have correctly set the
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startup configuration file and the main system software image file. If the main system software image file
has been corrupted or does not exist, the device cannot reboot. You must re-specify a main system
software image file, or power off the switch and then power it on so the system can reboot with the
backup system software image file.

Rebooting a card or switch immediately at the CLI

Perform the following command in user view to reboot a switch in standalone mode or a card on the
switch:
To do...
Reboot a card or the switch
immediately
NOTE:
In standalone mode, the reboot command cannot reboot the standby MPU. If the switch has only one
MPU, rebooting the MPU reboots the switch. To reboot the standby MPU on a dual-MPU switch, use the
slave restart command (see
Perform the following command in user view to reboot an IRF member switch, a card on the switch, or all
IRF member switches:
To do...
Reboot an IRF member switch,
a card on the switch, or all IRF
member switches

Scheduling a device reboot

Perform one of the following commands in user view to schedule a device reboot:
Use the command...
reboot [ slot slot-number ]
High Availability Command Reference)
Use the command...
reboot [ chassis chassis-number
[ slot slot-number ] ]
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Remarks
Required
If you do not specify any card
number for the slot-number
argument, the switch reboots.
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Remarks
Required
If you do not specify any IRF member ID
for the chassis-number argument, all IRF
member switches reboot.
If you specify an IRF member ID for the
chassis-number argument and a card
number for the slot-number argument,
the card on the specified IRF member
switch reboots.
If you specify an IRF member ID but not
any card number, the specified IRF
member switch reboots.