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Schedule Restart of Firewall

mlarish — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:38:47 GMT

Is there any web/gui interface option to schedule a reboot/restart of a PA 3000 series firewall running 8.1.5? Any command line level option? We'd like to restart the firewalls middle of the night without IT being awake to do so.

Mike

Re: Schedule Restart of Firewall

BPry — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:57:04 GMT

@mlarish,

This is where the API and a script would come in handy to complete the task for you. However I have to ask, why are you looking to restart the firewall on a schedule on a regular basis?

Re: Schedule Restart of Firewall

mlarish — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:04:44 GMT

Sorry for the delay in the reply. I typically like to restart all devices we have, some more often than others. Microsoft based systems get restarted weekly by script. Switches about every 6 months to a year. I'd like to restart the firewall once a month or so...

The firewall restart desire started about a year or two ago when under previous versions, it would get a little squirrely after about 2 months of up-time.

I haven't noticed that problem with the more recent versions however but restarting periodically is usually a good thing.

Re: Schedule Restart of Firewall

BPry — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:42:51 GMT

@mlarish,

Okay. We'll I would personally recommend that this not be something you do in the middle of the night for a variety of reasons, primarily the fact that if the auto-commit process fails or a dependent process fails to start properly your firewall will be unaccessible until someone in the IT staff can take a look at it.

That being said, the REST url that you would use the do something like this is below. You could then use either Powershell or a Python Requests script to actually do this on a scheduled basis.

/api/?type=op&cmd=<request><restart><system></system></restart></request>