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Did you know that you can schedule WHEN your Cisco IOS Device reboots?  Yes, it's true.

Scheduled maintenance, backing out of recent configuration changes, bailing out of a major change handled remotely, etc.  Being able to have the router auto reload in a few minutes or at a specified time and date can sure come in handy. Imagine the possibilities when you are planning on making a change to a router from a remote (and distant) location and you are not sure of what a result may be.  If the change you are making could possibly lock you out of the router (or worse, disconnect the router from the network) set it to auto reload as an emergency back-out mechanism.  You can always cancel it if everything goes well.  =)

Simple to do.

Router# reload in 5

or

Router# reload at 22:00:00 May 27 2008

***
***  --- RELOAD SCHEDULED ---
***
* Mar 1 23:18:42: %SYS-5-SCHEDULED_RELOAD: Reload requested for 22:00:00 UTC Mon May 27 2008 by console

You can also cancel it by using:

Router# reload cancel

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