In automation, when all troubleshooting fails or there is a freeze, you don’t give up until you try a restart.

Sometimes, the restart resolves the issue. Sometimes it doesn’t. But you will never know until you try it.

However, a restart can be counterproductive if you jump straight to it, before trying to resolve the issue.

There is a balance required between trying to resolve an issue and restarting. No one really knows the perfect time. Each case is unique.

But if you think you have tried everything, that freeze you face might just require a restart.

Sometimes, a re-start. Other times, a rest-art.

If you do not seem to be going anywhere with this, a restart will not make things worse.

– Osasu Oviawe