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Watchdog Timer

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

47.1 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 207 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.

show

hardware-watchdog-timer status

Displays the settings of the hardware watchdog timer.

47.2 Software Watchdog Timer

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

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

Table 208 software-watchdog-timer Commands

COMMAND

 

DESCRIPTION

[no] software-watchdog-timer

 

Sets how long the system’s core firmware can be unresponsive before

<10..600>

 

resetting. The no command turns the timer off.

show

software-watchdog-timer

status

Displays the settings of the software watchdog timer.

show

software-watchdog-timer

log

Displays a log of when the software watchdog timer took effect.

 

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