Technical Note : How to reboot a FortiGate blade from the 5140 Chassis Shelf Manager?

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Description
This article explains how to reboot a FortiGate blade from the 5140 Chassis Shelf Manager.

You can reboot a FortiGate blade on a slot from the FGT5140 Shelf Manager assuming the blade is still detected as a FRU. Boards installed in chassis slots are called field replaceable units (FRUs).

This procedure is equivalent to a "power- cycled" and can be used as a remote reboot method.

Solution

 Please follow the steps below :

1. Login to the Shelf Manager

2. Run this command, ‘clia fru <IPMB_address>’ to check if the blade is still present (refer to FGT5140-slot-addresses.jpg)

# clia fru 96

IPM Sentry Shelf Manager Command Line Interpreter
96: FRU # 0
Entity: (0xa0, 0x60)

    Hot Swap State: M4 (Active), Previous: M4 (Active), Last State Change Cause: Normal State Change (0x0)

    Device ID String: "FG5005A"

3. Deactivate the specific FRU and the IPM led on the blade will be blue

# clia deactivate 96 0

IPM Sentry Shelf Manager Command Line Interpreter

    Command issued via IPMB, status = 0 (0x0)

    Command executed successfully

4. Activate back this specific FRU and the blade will reboot

# clia activate 96 0

IPM Sentry Shelf Manager Command Line Interpreter

    Command issued via IPMB, status = 0 (0x0)

    Command executed successfully

Please note that commands described in step 3 and 4 will not work for some hot swap states like for example "M7 (Communication Lost)".