Rebooting the device

You can reboot the device with or without a power-on self-test (POST).

Caution

All reboot operations are disruptive, and the commands prompt for confirmation before executing. When you reboot a device, all traffic to and from it stops. All ports on that device remain inactive until the device comes back online.

Note

Any unsaved configurations are lost. During the boot process system initialization, configuration data (default or user-defined) are applied to the device through configuration replay.

• The reload system command performs a cold reboot that powers off and restarts the entire chassis. All session connections must be restarted. If the power-on self-test (POST) is enabled (via FIPS or CC enable), POST is executed when the system comes back up.
  

  device# reload system

• The fastboot command reboots the device without a POST.
  

  device# fastboot