Reboot Window

The reboot window functionality manages the list of allowed or disallowed hourly slots and thus provide a simple lookup service for the agents to know at which time they can reboot the device.

Each reboot window consists of information for every hour of the week, starting from 0:00 on Monday all the way to 23:00 on the following Sunday. As such the window does not, and cannot, control rebooting based on anything such as predefined calendar dates or times. As an example, the setting configured for the 8:00 slot on Wednesday controls device reboots between 8:00 and 8:59:59 for every Wednesday regardless of date. A reboot window authorizes, for example, the reboot of a device requested by a patch, but does not execute it.

Reboot windows can be assigned at will to devices and device groups, that is, a device can have more than one reboot window assigned. But be aware, that if there is more than one window assigned and these windows do not have common allowed timeframes, the device can never reboot.

Note:

If an application is in full screen mode when a reboot is requested, the reboot is canceled, even if the current time falls into the permitted timeframe. The reboot is then retried at the next check and will occur during the next allowed timeframe when no application is in full screen mode.

 

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