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is there any enthusiasm for Sophos to build a reboot scheduler?

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I would like to know if there is any momentum for Sophos to build a scheduler which will automate the reboot process. I am with a small organisation and like the idea of rebooting the XG Firewall once a week. (It definitely does improve after a reboot, and does slowly degrade as time goes by.)

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0 guillaume bottollier over 7 years ago

+1 :)
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0 LuCar Toni over 7 years ago in reply to guillaume bottollier

You could build a script on a linux appliance (raspberry pi?) and log into all appliances with SSH and reboot it.

Cronjob etc should be enough.
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0 Data Manager over 7 years ago in reply to LuCar Toni

Oh that my knowledge of Linux was that advanced... Alas I am a Windows person. ('grep' and 'ls' being about the limit of my knowledge of Linux.)

I was hoping that Sophos would include the feature in an upgrade to the firewall, and I was hoping there would be sufficient support in the community for it. (Additional tab on the web GUI perhaps?)
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0 LuCar Toni over 7 years ago in reply to Data Manager

Hi,

There is a feature request for this.

https://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-xg-firewall/suggestions/31340944-schedule-reboot-xg-firewall

But to be honest, not many votes on it.

And my appliances run until i reboot then in case of a firmware update.

As far as i know, you should not reboot frequently "just in case".

https://serverfault.com/questions/15782/how-often-should-i-reboot-linux-servers

Should be enough to go with the Firmware Update reboot.
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0 LuCar Toni over 7 years ago in reply to Data Manager

Hi,

There is a feature request for this.

https://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-xg-firewall/suggestions/31340944-schedule-reboot-xg-firewall

But to be honest, not many votes on it.

And my appliances run until i reboot then in case of a firmware update.

As far as i know, you should not reboot frequently "just in case".

https://serverfault.com/questions/15782/how-often-should-i-reboot-linux-servers

Should be enough to go with the Firmware Update reboot.
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