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Schedule Restart of Firewall

L1 Bithead

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

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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

@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? 

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.

@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>

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