Restarting a Device
You can rectify a network fault by restarting a device. This section describes how to restart a device.
You can restart a device using any of the methods in the following table.
Method |
Description |
|---|---|
Cold restart |
To perform a cold restart, you need to power off and then power on the device again. Cold restart has limitations and is used by onsite maintenance personnel. Current configurations will not be saved during a cold restart. Therefore, save configurations before performing a cold restart. |
Hot restart (device restart using command lines): you can run the reboot command in the user view to restart the device. |
Hot restart is performed using command lines, which is used by maintenance personnel who remotely manage the device. During a hot restart, the system asks whether to save the configuration, which effectively prevents configuration loss. |