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+# Restarting Fail2Ban
+After updating your configuration files, copying configuration files from this repo, and/or using the Convenience Script, you must restart Fail2Ban to activate changes.  This is a simple 3 step process.
+
+1. Restart F2B service
+2. Check status of F2B
+3. Confirm via F2B-client
+
+```bash
+systemctl restart fail2ban.service
+systemctl --full --no-pager status fail2ban.service
+fail2ban-client status
+```