Umm, not for nothing but it seems that you're in over your head in managing this IDS system. Rebooting an IDS device won't impact active connections because all it does is report on network activity (passively) so no, you won't hurt anyone *unless* you have it running in inline IPS mode with fail closed configured. Depending upon where this device resides on the network, the impact could be isolated or site wide.

Rebooting the box does not reset the configs.

--TH13