ZyXEL C1000Z Scheduled Reboot – Windows
So there’s nowhere in its OS to schedule a reboot of ZyXEL’s C1000Z router. Thankfully you can use Telnet to do it.
First, enable Telnet. Log into the router, then choose Advanced Setup > Remote Console. Under Console State choose LAN Telnet Enabled. Set your Telnet username and password and click Apply.
Now you’re ready to go. Create a .vbs file and populate it with the below, changing the IP address, username and password to be applicable to your router.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | Option explicit Dim oShell set oShell= Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") oShell.Run "telnet" WScript.Sleep 3000 oShell.Sendkeys "open 192.168.1.1~" WScript.Sleep 3000 oShell.Sendkeys "admin~" WScript.Sleep 3000 oShell.Sendkeys "password~" WScript.Sleep 3000 oShell.Sendkeys "reboot~" WScript.Sleep 3000 oShell.Sendkeys "~" WScript.Sleep 3000 oShell.Sendkeys "quit~" Wscript.Quit |
Save this file. You can double click it to test it. After having confirmed it works, create a task pointed to it in Windows Task Scheduler. Modern Windows OSes should natively run a vb script in scheduler. If not, use CScript to launch the script:
1 | C:\Windows\System32\CScript.exe //Nologo //B X:\PathToYourScript\YourScript.vbs |
