Administration: General Information
Rebooting the Device
89 Cisco 500 Series Stackable Managed Switch Administration Guide Release 1.3
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There are cases when you might prefer to set the time of the reboot for some time 
in the future. This could happen for example in one of the following cases:
• You are performing actions on a remote device, and these actions might 
create loss of connectivity to the remote device. Pre-scheduling a reboot 
restores the working configuration and enables restoring the connectivity to 
the remote device. If these actions are successful, the delayed reboot can 
be cancelled.
• Reloading the device cause loss of connectivity in the network, thus by 
using delayed reboot, you can schedule the reboot to a time that is more 
convenient for the users (e.g. late night).
To  r e b o o t  t h e  d e v i c e :
STEP 1 Click Administration > Reboot.
STEP  2 Click one of the Reboot buttons to reboot the device.
• Reboot—Reboots the device. Since any unsaved information in the Running 
Configuration is discarded when the device is rebooted, you must click Save 
in the upper-right corner of any window to preserve current configuration 
across the boot process. If the Save option is not displayed, the Running 
Configuration matches the Startup Configuration and no action is necessary.
The following options are available:
- Immediate—Reboot immediately.
- Date—Enter the date (month/day) and time (hour and minutes) of the 
schedule reboot. This schedules a reload of the software to take place 
at the specified time (using a 24-hour clock). If you specify the month 
and day, the reload is scheduled to take place at the specified time and 
date. If you do not specify the month and day, the reload takes place at 
the specified time on the current day (if the specified time is later than 
the current time) or on the next day (if the specified time is earlier than 
the current time). Specifying 00:00 schedules the reload for midnight. 
The reload must take place within 24 days.
NOTE This option can only be used if the system time has either been set 
manually or by SNTP.
- In—Reboot within the specified number of hours and minutes. The 
maximum amount of time that can pass is 24 days.