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I see that the 5800 has the capability of schedule a reboot using the "schedule reboot delay" command. The documentation for the command states:

After you execute the command, the device will prompt you to confirm the configuration. You

must enter Y to make the configuration take effect. The original configuration will be overwritten

at the same time.

Does this mean the reboot will not happen unless the current running configuration is saved? I am looking to make changes to a remote stack and want the stack to reboot with the saved configuration, not the running configuration if there are problems with my changes.

Thank you.

Scott

Hi,

Jobs can be made in the user-view and system-view.

Jobs in user-view are scheduled ad-hoc (not saved in config), while jobs in system-view are stored in the configuration file. This means that these jobs (if config is saved) will survive a system reboot.

This can be useful when you want every day certain ports online/offline based on a schedule (or remove poe from AP ports for example).

For a scheduled reboot, this is typically not something which must be repeated, so it would be an ad-hoc job in the user-view. This means you do not need to save the configuration, they will be scheduled the moment you enter the command.

The confirmation is problably just in case you had a previous reboot scheduled, so the new command will overwrite the existing reboot schedule.

best regards,Peter

We had a case recently with Comware 7 and the VSR1000 about this.  It could be dangerous to automatically save the running configuration before the scheduled reboot.  We have asked for a behavior change and not sure when we will see that.  I can ask about the 5800.

Do you know what version of code you are running?

Thanks!

David

Thank you for the replies and the information on Comware 7. Our core switches are 5900's running version 7.1.035, Release 2209-US currently. The stack of 5800s we will be working on is running version 5.20.105, Release 1807P02-US. I have another stand-alone switch that id running version 5.20.105, Release 1808P08. I do plan on updating that switch soon and will try the reboot delay before that to see the operations. I will post a reply once that has been done. Thank you for being willing to follow up on the 5800s during your case.

Scott

I have finally been able to perform my test. I can state that the reboot dely just prompts the user to confirm that is what they want to do. I had made a change to a port description without saving the running configuration. That change was not present following the restart.

Thanks to those that responded.

Scott