Reboot or shut down an On-Premise Appliance

You may need to manually reboot or shut down your Smoothwall On-Premise Appliance hardware or Virtual Machine (VM). You can do this from within the Admin UI rather than accessing the console.

1. Go to System > Maintenance > Shutdown.
2. Select one of the options:
   
   • immediately
   • delay action for and select an amount of time between 5 minutes and 1 hour.
   • at the following time and select a time.
     

       Note

     If the scheduled time has passed today, the Appliance will reboot or shut down tomorrow at the selected time.

3. Select Reboot or Shutdown.
   • Reboot:
     1. You’ll see a loading screen and a ‘System is rebooting.’ message.
     2. After rebooting, sign in to the Admin UI again.
   • Shutdown:
     1. You’ll see a loading screen and a ‘System is shutting down.’ message. Once shut down, your browser will show a ‘This site can’t be reached.’ message.
     2. Your console will display information about stopping services and then show a blank black screen.
     3. To start your Smoothwall back up:
        • If using hardware, power the appliance back on using the power button if there is one.
        • If using a VM, select the VM in your management tool and select to power it on.
     4. Your browser will refresh and you can sign in to the Admin UI again.