Sophos UTM: How to reboot specific Sophos Access Point

From within WebAdmin of UTM, you cannot reboot an accesspoint, from SSH it’s possible via the AWETOOL command:

Log into the command line interface (CLI) as follow:
1. Enter the user-name: loginuser
2. Enter loginuser password
3. Type su for superuser
4. Enter root password
Type the following command to connect to the Access Point’s console from the UTM’s console:awetoolNote: The above command can be used only after successful login with root user.
The following screen appears:Some user may need to select Add firewall rule to allow SSH traffic to the access point
Select option 1 to list the available APs.
Select the AP you would like to reboot.
Click on Ok.
The below screen appears, type there y to connect to the AP.
You’re now connected to the AP.
Type the command to reboot to restart the AP

2 Comments

Jack 04/08/2021 at 22:25

Very nice. I’m puzzling how I can implement this as a cron job. Because with the graphical interface of awetool i can only get ahead in the active command line at the moment. Do you have an idea?

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1. Martin (Post author)07/08/2021 at 16:55
  
  Sorry no, all I ever found was this 🙂
  
  https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000038675?language=en_US
  
  Regards Martin
  
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