Terminates and restarts the specified process during a software upgrade on the switch.
| cname | Specifies the name of the process to restart. With this parameter, you can terminate and restart all instances of the process associated with a specific routing protocol on all VRs.You can restart the OSPF routing protocol and associated processes. |
| name | Specifies the name of the process to terminate and restart. You can use this command with the following processes: bgp, eaps, exsshd, isis, lldp, netLogin, netTools, ntp, ospf, ospfv3, snmp Subagent, snmpMaster, telnetd, thttpd, tftpd, vrrp, and xmld. |
| slot | On a SummitStack, specifies the node‘s slot number. The number is a value from 1 to 8. |
N/A.
Use this command to terminate and restart a process during a software upgrade on the switch. You have the following options:
Depending on the software version running on your switch and the type of switch you have, you can terminate and restart different or additional processes. To see which processes you can restart during a software upgrade, enter restart process followed by [Tab]. The switch displays a list of available processes.
You can issue this command only from the master node. If you issue this command from any other node, the following message appears:
Error: Processes created by user can only be restarted on the primary node slot.
To display the status of ExtremeXOS processes on the switch, including how many times a process has been restarted, use the show process {name} {detail} {description} {slotslotid} command. The following is a truncated sample of the show process command on a switch:
Process Name Version Restart State Start Time ------------------------------------------------------------------------- aaa 3.0.0.2 0 Ready Thu Sep 1 17:00:52 2005 acl 3.0.0.2 0 Ready Thu Sep 1 17:00:54 2005 bgp Not Started 0 No license Not Started cfgmgr 3.0.0.21 0 Ready Thu Sep 1 17:00:52 2005 cli 3.0.0.22 0 Ready Thu Sep 1 17:00:52 2005 devmgr 3.0.0.2 0 Ready Thu Sep 1 17:00:52 2005 dirser 3.0.0.2 0 Ready Thu Sep 1 17:00:51 2005 dosprotect 3.0.0.1 0 Ready Thu Sep 1 17:00:56 2005 eaps 3.0.0.8 0 Ready Thu Sep 1 17:00:53 2005 ...
You can also use the restart process command when upgrading a software modular package. For more information, see the section Upgrading a Modular Software Package in the Switch Engine 32.2 User Guide .
The following example stops and restarts the process tftpd during a software upgrade:
restart process tftpd
The following example stops and restarts all instances of the OSPF routing protocol for all VRs during a software upgrade:
restart process class ospf
This command was first available in ExtremeXOS 11.3.
Support for restarting the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (lldp), Open Shortest Path First (ospf), and network login (netLogin) processes was added in ExtremeXOS 11.3.
Support for Border Gateway Protocol (bgp) and Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (eaps) was added in ExtremeXOS 11.4.
Support for MultiProtocol Label Switching (mpls) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (vrrp) was added in ExtremeXOS 11.6.
Support for netTools was added in ExtremeXOS 12.4.
This command is available on ExtremeSwitching 5320, 5420, 5520, and 5720 series switches.