The following situations either cause or require a Sensor reboot. You have two options for rebooting the Sensor. You can reboot the Sensor from the Manager interface, or you can issue the reboot CLI command.
Note
A Sensor reboot can take up to five minutes.
Issuing the following CLI commands causes an automatic reboot of the Sensor:
resetconfigdeletesignaturesfactorydefaults
For more information on the Sensor CLI commands, see the CLI commands section.
Changing the Sensor's management port IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) requires a manual reboot of the Sensor, before the change takes into effect.
Certain internal software errors can cause the Sensor to reboot itself. See a description of Sensor fault messages later in this chapter.
Enabling/disabling SSL requires a Sensor reboot.
Enabling/disabling parsing and detection of attacks in IPv6 traffic passing through the Sensor monitoring port requires a manual reboot of the Sensor.
In the Manager user interface, you can enable/disable parsing and detection of attacks in IPv6 traffic with the Scan IPv6 traffic for attacks option from the IP Settings tab (Devices → <Device Name> → Setup → Advanced → IP Settings). For more information, see the topic Configuring IP Settings for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic in the IPS Administration section.
Upgrading Sensor software requires a manual reboot of the Sensor.