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[FEATURE REQUEST] Add "Shutdown" to web UI of Routers

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by anonymous

Please add the feature to the Web UI to be able to gracefully shut down the routers. Currently there seems only to be a reboot option.

Yes, there is the workaround to do that via CLI with the command poweroff. But to use the CLI in the interface, currently someone has to deactivate browsing with SSL which is a crazy idea concerning network security (and which raises a separate feature request to correct this). So only the way via SSH remains, which might not be possible for the user for various reasons at any given time and accessing device. All this seems crazily complicated compared to just have a button item in the GUI!

And the advice some people give to just pull the power cable seems awkward to any sysadmin and creates physical pain in his heart laugh And this cannot be the official way to do it! I mean: There are log files written constantly, etc. to the file system. Just pulling the plug will corrupt all that and lead to at least a bit of data loss, filesystem mess and whatever comes with it.

Also for me as a new user it cost me 30 minutes to just find out that there is no shutdown option in the menu!

See also Shutdown a RUT955

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by anonymous
Hello,

Shutdown option does not serve much of a purpose in Teltonika devices.

The device is designed to operate in exactly this manner, by plugging in/out the power cable, or rather continuously being powered on with periodic reboots for maintenance. It does not even have a physical power on button, dedicated GPIOs or independent services waiting for power on, thus periodic powering of the device would require some external switch or relay.

OpenWrt, upon which Teltonika RutOS is based on, is designed in a way that it performs very few writes to flash, unless you are running some application, specifically configured to perform data writing to flash, any corruption is very unlikely. All the logs are by default stored in device's RAM and are lost upon each device boot, unless configured otherwise.

The SSL issue will be addressed in your other thread.

Best regards,