Enable container support remotely

Hello,

Did I get it right, that it is not possible to enable container support without a physical access? In other words, as soon I enable it, I only have 5 minutes to reboot router physically?

I wonder how do people handle it in remote data centers with support that usually needs 24 hours to do anything with a device?

a good Technician would have configured the device mode for his needs before rolling it out live, its called planning ahead.... 24 hours if its a problem means you had no plan.

5min is the default. see Device-mode - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation

You can set activation-timeout to up to 24h.

24 hours if its a problem means you had no plan.

yep, but in this particular case nobody new in advance that we are going to need containers.

thanks! Somehow I missed it. That helps a lot.