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# Using AWS OpsHub to Manage Devices

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## Managing Your Devices

* **Important**\
  We highly recommend that you suspend all activities on the device before you reboot the device. Rebooting a device stops running instances, interrupts any writing to Amazon S3 buckets on the device, and stops any write operations from the file interface without clearing the cache.
* **Important**\
  We highly recommend that you suspend all activities on the device before you shut down the device. Shutting down a device stops running instances, interrupts any writing to Amazon S3 buckets on the device, and stops any write operations from the file interface without clearing the cache.

## Automating Your Management Tasks

* **Note**\
  Automating tasks is not supported on clusters.\
  To use tasks, the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager service must be started first. To start a service on your Snowball Edge, see [Starting a Service on Your Snowball Edge](https://github.com/kevinslin/aws-reference-notes/blob/main/services/aws_snow_family/using-client-commands.md#edge-start-service).