Rebooting or Shutting Down an Appliance

Maintenance > [Tools] Appliance Reboot / Shutdown

The appliance supports three types of reboot:

n	Reboot. Reboots the appliance gracefully. This is your typical "vanilla" restart.

Use case: You're changing the deployment mode or other configuration parameters that require a reboot.

n	Erase Network Memory and Reboot. Erases the Network Memory cache and reboots the appliance.

Use case: You need to restart the appliance with an empty Network Memory cache.

n	Shutdown. Shuts down the appliance and turns the power off. To restart, go to the appliance and physically turn the power on with the Power switch.

Use case:

•	You're decommissioning the appliance.

•	You need to physically move the appliance to another location.

•	You need to recable the appliance for another type of deployment.

Behavior During Reboot

A physical appliance enters into one of the following states:

•	hardware bypass, if deployed in-line (Bridge mode), or

•	an open-port state, if deployed out-of-path (Router/Server mode).

Unless a virtual appliance is configured for a high availability deployment, all flows are discontinued during reboot.

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