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# Scheduled reboot and failover

> How to schedule a MikroTik router reboot (daily or weekly) from Centipid, and what Centipid does and does not manage for WAN failover, load balancing, and multi-WAN internet links.

# Schedule a router reboot, and what about failover

Centipid manages your MikroTik's subscriber side: RADIUS, PPPoE, Hotspot, and the management tunnel. It can reboot a router now, and it can add entries to the router's own task scheduler. It does not set up backup internet links.

## Reboot now

Open the router from **Network → Devices → Routers** and choose **Actions → Reboot MikroTik**. The router must be online, because the reboot is sent over its management connection. If it is offline, the action is greyed out.

Everyone connected through the router drops while it restarts.

## Schedule a reboot

Centipid has no reboot timetable of its own. Instead, the router's **Scheduler** tab adds a task to the MikroTik's built-in scheduler (`/system scheduler`), and the router runs it.

1. Open the router and select the **Scheduler** tab. It lists the tasks already on the router.
2. Choose **Add task** and fill in:
   * **Name**: letters, numbers, `-` and `_`, for example `nightly-reboot`.
   * **Interval**: how often it repeats. Use a preset (`5m`, `15m`, `1h`, `1d`), type your own such as `7d` for weekly, or turn on **Run once**.
   * **Start**: **At a set time**, for example `03:00`. (**On startup** runs the task every time the router boots, so do not use it for a reboot.)
   * **Script / command**: `/system reboot`
   * **Comment** (optional): who added it and why.
3. Choose **Create task**. The task appears in the list.

To stop the scheduled reboot, delete the task from the same tab.

The router runs the task by its own clock, so check the clock first. Use **Sync router time** from the router's menu on the **Routers** list if it is wrong. The router must be online for the Scheduler tab to load, add, or delete tasks.

Schedule the reboot for your quietest hour and tell customers if they will notice it.

## Failover, load balancing, and multi-WAN

Centipid does not configure a second internet link on routers you manage from the console. There is no setting for failover, load balancing (for example PCC), or multi-WAN.

Set these up on the router itself, with WinBox or the RouterOS terminal. A common failover setup gives each internet link a default route with a different `distance`, plus `check-gateway=ping` so the router moves traffic when a link stops answering. See MikroTik's own documentation for the details.

Things to know when you do:

* Centipid reaches the router through a management tunnel that the router opens over its internet connection. After any routing change, check that the router shows as online in Centipid and that a test subscriber can sign in.
* Do not remove or rename the Centipid RADIUS, tunnel, or hotspot settings while you change routing. If something breaks, see [Network troubleshooting](/network/troubleshooting).
* Some older routers also carry a backup RADIUS server so customer logins keep working over the internet link if the management tunnel drops. For those routers, the **Script** tab shows the command under **Fallback RADIUS**. This keeps logins working; it does not add a backup internet link.

## Related

* [Routers and NAS](/network/routers)
* [Router health](/network/router-health)
* [Maintenance mode](/network/maintenance-mode)