RHEL7 Reboot

Written by Mike Olsen on the 18th Aug 2021

Exported on 19-Aug-2021 08:55:59

Reboot server and wait for it to start booting.

Parameters

Name	Type	Script Reference	Default Value	Comment
Linux: Root User	Linux OS Credential	linuxRootUser
Target Server: Lin	Linux / Unix Server	targetServerLin		The target server is a generic placeholder, usually used for the server a script will run on. For example, the server being built if the procedure is building a server.

Reboot server now without waiting.

The connection details have changed from the last step.

Connect via SSH

ssh user@hostname

This is a Bash Script make sure you run it with bash -l from a terminal session

nohup shutdown -r now &

Ping server until it is offline and then wait 20 seconds for it to finish rebooting.

The connection details have changed from the last step.

on node {Target Server: Lin}

Check if tcp port 22 is listening make sure it goes down for 1 seconds, once its up, wait 20 seconds .

Use Telnet to check if the TCP service is accepting connections.