If recommended by Extreme Networks Technical Support personnel, you can stop a running process. You can also use a single command to stop and restart a running process during a software upgrade on the switch.
By using the single command, there is less process disruption and it takes less time to stop and restart the process.
In a SummitStack:
terminate process name [forceful | graceful] {slot slot}name: Specifies the name of the process.
forceful: Specifies that the software quickly terminate a process. Unlike the graceful option, the process is immediately shutdown without any of the normal process cleanup.
graceful: Specifies that the process shutdown gracefully by closing all opened connections, notifying peers on the network, and other types of process cleanup.
slot: For a modular chassis, specifies the slot number of the MSM/MM. A specifies the MSM/MM installed in slot A. B specifies the MSM/MM installed in slot B. On a SummitStack, specifies the target node's slot number. The number is a value from 1 to 8. (This parameter is available only on modular switches and SummitStack.)
Note
Do not terminate a process that was installed since the last reboot unless you have saved your configuration. If you have installed a software module and you terminate the newly installed process without saving your configuration, your module may not be loaded when you attempt to restart the process with the start process command.cname: Specifies that the software terminates and restarts all instances of the process associated with a specific routing protocol on all VRs.
name: Specifies the name of the process.