Schedule Reboot of Enterprise Wi-Fi 6 and AOS from XMS-C

[Sayan_Chowdhury]

Summary:

The article describes a method of scheduling reboot on Enterprise Wi-Fi 6 and AOS APs from XMS-Cloud. A regular reboot of APs helps you to keep the APs healthy and this can be achieved from the XMS-Cloud snippet section for the Enterprise Wi-Fi 6 and AOS APs.

How to configure the reboot schedule of Enterprise Wi-Fi 6 APs -

1. Select the AP’s profile, then navigate to Configuration → Optimization → Snippet → Enter the commands under Wi-Fi 6 Commands section and then Saving the Configuration –

• Commands to enter –
  service schedule reload HH:MM:SS (24 Hour format)

• Example –
  service schedule reload 15:37:02

2. Please note this snippet command will treat as an everyday reload as there is no specific command to configure as per the day on Enterprise Wi-Fi 6 APs
3. Make sure to validate the clock running in the APs before proceeding with the command:

• To check the running time on APs - “show clock”
• To check the uptime of APs - “show version”

4. All the show commands can be run by selecting the specific AP and entering those commands in the CLI Command section –

How to configure the reboot schedule of AOS APs –

1. Select the AP’s profile, then navigate to Configuration → Optimization → Snippet → Enter the commands under the AOS Commands section and then Saving the Configuration –

Commands to enter –
configure iap
auto-channel schedule “”

Example –
interface iap
auto-channel schedule “14:05 -r”

2. Command syntax –
   auto-channel schedule “04:00am -r”
   auto-channel schedule “sun 00:30 -r”
   auto-channel schedule “sunday 12:30AM -reboot”

• First, three commands are 1 command with different variations i.e. if you want to schedule for every day then use the first command.
• If you want to schedule on a specific day then use either the 2nd or 3rd command.

3. To program multiple days in a reboot -
   auto-channel schedule “mon 12:30am -r wed 1:30am -r friday 02:30 -r”

4. Make sure to validate the clock running in the APs before proceeding with the command:

• To check the running time on APs - “show date-time”
• To check the uptime of APs - “show uptime”

5. All the show commands can be run by selecting the specific AP and entering those commands in the CLI Command section –