Rebooting a device remotely
There are some cases, which may demand administrators to reboot the managed devices remotely. This article describes how to reboot a device using GoTo Resolve MDM's remote actions.
Requirements
- Android devices need to enrolled into Fully Managed mode and have GoTo Resolve MDM client 2.5.0 or newer installed.
- iOS is version 10.3 or above, and the device is Supervised, macOS version 10.13 or above.
- Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices added to GoTo Resolve MDM by using the Full enrollment method.
Reboot is not supported for Windows 10/11 Home computers.
How to reboot a device
The simplest way to reboot a device is to open the device page.
- Start by navigating to and choosing the desired device.
- Choose the from the page toolbar. Press Reboot to confirm the action in the wizard.
You can monitor the status of the action on the
or from the Action log on the Device page.Important information
- Unlock passcode-protected iOS devices to get them to join passcode-protected Wi-Fi networks.
- There is also the possibility to reboot a device remotely using GoTo Resolve MDM API. You may find the Swagger documentation from https://mdm.gotoresolve.com/<yoursitename>/swagger/ or you may read more about GoTo Resolve MDM API v2 from our Knowledge base.