boot
Purpose
Reboots the Digi device, restores the device configuration to factory default settings, or loads new firmware files (both EOS and POST images) from a TFTP server.
Required permissions
For Digi products with two or more users, permissions must be set to set permissions boot=execute to use this command. In addition,
- For action=factory you also must have revert-all=execute permissions.
- For load=host ip address:load file you also must have fw‑update=execute permissions.
See set permissions for details on setting user permissions for commands.
Syntax
Reboot the device server
boot action=reset
Restore configuration defaults
boot action=factory
Load new firmware or POST file into flash ROM from a TFTP host
boot load=host ip address:load file
Options
action
The action to be performed.
factory
Resets the entire configuration to factory defaults, then reboots the device.
reset
load
The firmware to be loaded.
host ip address
The IP address of a host with new firmware or POST file, which is then burned into flash ROM. The host must be running a TFTP server.
load file
The name of a firmware file or POST file. The software automatically detects the type of file and performs the appropriate load operation.
Examples
Restore configuration defaults
This example reloads the firmware stored in flash ROM and resets the configuration to factory defaults then reboots the device.
#> boot action=factory
Reboot using the current firmware and configuration
This example reboots the device and uses the current firmware and configuration stored in flash ROM.
#> boot action=reset
Reboot using firmware from a boot host
This example loads the firmware stored on the TFTP host into flash ROM. A reboot is required to use the new firmware.
#> boot load=10.0.0.1:firmware.bin
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