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Watchdog Timer

This chapter provides information about the NXC’s watchdog timers.

42.1 Hardware Watchdog Timer

The hardware watchdog has the system restart if the hardware fails.

The hardware-watchdog-timercommands are for support engineers. It is recommended that you not modify the hardware watchdog timer settings.

Table 154 hardware-watchdog-timer Commands

COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

[no] hardware-watchdog-timer <4..37>

Sets how long the system’s hardware can be

 

unresponsive before resetting. The no command

 

turns the timer off.

hardware-watchdog-timer start

Enables the hardware watchdog timer.

show hardware-watchdog-timer status

Displays the settings of the hardware watchdog

 

timer.

42.2 Software Watchdog Timer

The software watchdog has the system restart if the core firmware fails.

 

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