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Fortress ES-Series CLI Guide: System Options, Maintenance and Licensing
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5.2 Rebooting the Mesh Point
NOTE: The
reboot
and
reset
default
commands end all
active sessions on the
Fortress Mesh Point.
Restart the Fortress Mesh Point with reboot, confirming your
intention at the query, as follows:
# reboot
Confirm: Reboot device now? [Y|N] y
You can reboot the system after a specified amount of time with
-delay. The system automatically reboots after the number of
minutes indicated, between
1–1440. A value of 0 (zero)
cancels any pending reboot.
# reboot -delay 20
Confirm: Schedule delayed reboot? [Y|N] y
[OK] System will be rebooted after 20 minutes.
NOTE: You can
also reboot some
Mesh Point models with
chassis controls (refer to
the appropriate Hard-
ware Guide).
The reboot command does not power cycle the Mesh Point.
When the Mesh Point has rebooted, you must log back in to the
Mesh Point CLI.
Except for the boot that occurs after you upgrade the Mesh
Point’s software, by default the Mesh Point boots the same
image, on the same partition, that it used when it last booted.
From a serial session, you can interrupt the boot process by
striking
Ctrl-C, which allows you to choose the software image
to boot and optionally reset the Mesh Point to its factory default
configuration.
You must be logged on to an
administrator
-level or a
maintenance-level account to reboot the Mesh Point (refer to
Section 2.2).
5.2.1 Booting Selectable Software Images
The Mesh Point stores two, user-selectable copies (or images)
of the Mesh Point software on separate partitions of the internal
flash memory.
When the Mesh Point’s software is upgraded (Section 5.3), the
new software is first written to the non-running boot partition,
overwriting any version stored there. When the Mesh Point is
rebooted to complete the upgrade process, it boots from the
partition to which the upgrade was downloaded, with the same
configuration settings that were in effect before the upgrade
procedure.
The Mesh Point then defaults to the boot partition with the
latest software image—or the last image booted—whenever it
restarts.
New configuration changes are not written to the non-running
boot partition. If you boot from the non-running boot partition,
configuration settings will return to those in effect at the time
the Mesh Point’s software was last upgraded (or when the
image on the partition last ran).