Rebooting the device with AWS OpsHub - AWS Snowball Edge Developer Guide

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Rebooting the device with AWS OpsHub

Follow these steps to use AWS OpsHub to reboot your Snow device.

Important

We highly recommend that you suspend all activities on the device before you reboot the device. Rebooting a device stops running instances and interrupts any writing to Amazon S3 buckets on the device.

To reboot a device

  1. On the AWS OpsHub dashboard, find your device under Devices. Then choose the device to open the device details page.

  2. Choose the Device Power menu, then choose Reboot. A dialog box appears.

    Device details page showing Device Power menu open with Reboot chosen.

  3. In the dialog box, choose Reboot. Your device starts to reboot.

    Reboot device window showing Reboot button at lower right.

    While the device shuts down, the LCD screen displays a message indicating the device is shutting down.

    Shutdown message on LCD screen.