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The watchdog process reboots the device whenever an unrecoverable failure is detected in the device.

Syntax:

watchdog <on | off | status>

Parameter

Description

<on>

Enables the watchdog

<off>

Disables the watchdog. Use it when a Sensor reboots continuously due to repeated system failure.

<status>

Displays the status of the watchdog process ('on' or 'off')

Sample Output:

  • For Sensor, the output is as shown below:

    intruShell@john> watchdog status

    watchdog = off

Applicable to:

NS-series Sensors