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}Where the following is true:
| name | Specifies the name of the process to terminate. You can terminate the following processes: bgp, eaps, exsshd, isis, lldp, netLogin, netTools, ntp, ospf, ospfv3, snmpMaster,snmpSubagent, telnetd, thttpd, tftpd, vrrp, and xmld. |
| forceful | Specifies a forceful termination. |
| graceful | Specifies a graceful termination. |
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.