Rebooting A Device - 3Com 4210G Series Configuration Manual

maintain: The system maintains the current situation, and does not take any measure to recover
itself. Therefore, you need to recover the system manually, such as reboot the system.
Sometimes, it is difficult for the system to recover, or some prompts that are printed during the
failure are lost after the reboot. In this case, you can use this method to maintain the abnormal
state to locate problems and recover the system.
Follow these steps to configure exception handling method:
To do...
Enter system view
Configure exception handling
method on all member devices
After this command is configured, all the member devices adopt the same method to handle
exceptions.
The exception handling method is effective to the failed member device only, and does not
influence the operations of other IRF members.

Rebooting a Device

When a fault occurs to a running device, you can remove the fault by rebooting the device, depending
on the actual situation. This operation equals to powering on the device after powering it off. It is mainly
used to reboot a device in remote maintenance, without performing hardware reboot of the device.
According to the actual environment:
You can reboot a member device or the whole system.
You can trigger the immediate reboot through command lines, or set a time at which the device
can automatically reboot, or you can also set a delay so that the device can automatically reboot
in the delay.
Follow these steps to reboot a device:
To do...
Reboot a member device or the
whole IRF system
Enable the scheduled reboot
function of all member devices
and specify a specific reboot
time and date
Enable the scheduled reboot
function of all member devices
and specify a reboot waiting
time
Use the command...
system-view
system-failure { maintain |
reboot }
Use the command...
reboot [ slot slot-number ]
schedule reboot at hh:mm
[ date ]
schedule reboot delay
{ hh:mm | mm }
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Remarks
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Optional
By default, all member devices
adopt the reboot method to
handle exceptions.
Remarks
Optional
Available in user view
Optional
The scheduled reboot function
is disabled by default.
Available in user view