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    Check That the Process Has Restarted

    Purpose

    After you have entered the restart command to restart a process, make sure that the process is up and running.

    Action

    To check that a process has restarted, use the following Junos OS CLI operational mode command:

    user@host> show system processes extensive

    Sample Output 1

    user@host> show system processes extensive
    last pid: 750; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 0+00:58:50 18:34:17
    52 processes: 1 running, 51 sleeping
    
    Mem: 50M Active, 19M Inact, 38M Wired, 264K Cache, 86M Buf, 642M Free
    Swap: 768M Total, 768M Free 
    
    PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  TIME WCPU    CPU COMMAND
    546 root     10   0   9096K  1720K nanslp 0:21 0.00% 0.00% chassisd
    685 root      2   0   12716K 3840K kqread 0:01 0.00% 0.00% rpd
    553 root      2   0   8792K  1544K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% mib2d
    552 root      2   0   8632K  1556K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% snmpd
    63 root      2   0   9316K  1564K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% kmd
    64 root      2   0   7736K   948K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% fud
    31 root     10   0    770M 25568K mfsidl 0:00 0.00% 0.00% newfs
    47 root      2   0   7732K   888K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% alarmd
    45 root      2   0  10292K  2268K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% dcd
    50 root      2 -12   1308K   692K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ntpd
     1 root     10   0    816K   520K wait   0:00 0.00% 0.00% init
    50 root     32   0  21716K   828K RUN    0:00 0.00% 0.00% top
    60 root      2   0   8208K  1088K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% rmopd
    61 root      2   0   8188K  1156K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cosd
    59 root      2   0   1632K   840K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ilmid 
    

    Sample Output 2

    user@host> show system processes extensive
    last pid: 758; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 0+01:01:48 18:37:15
    52 processes: 1 running, 51 sleeping
    Mem: 51M Active, 19M Inact, 38M Wired, 156K Cache, 86M Buf, 642M Free
    Swap: 768M Total, 768M Free
    
    PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE  TIME WCPU    CPU COMMAND
    546 root     10   0   9096K  1720K nanslp 0:22 0.05% 0.05% chassisd
    553 root      2   0   8792K  1544K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% mib2d
    552 root      2   0   8632K  1556K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% snmpd
    563 root      2   0   9316K  1564K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% kmd
    564 root      2   0   7736K   948K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% fud
    131 root     10   0    770M 25568K mfsidl 0:00 0.00% 0.00% newfs
    547 root      2   0   7732K   888K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% alarmd
    545 root      2   0  10292K  2268K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% dcd
      1 root     10   0    816K   520K wait   0:00 0.00% 0.00% init
    550 root      2 -12   1308K   692K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ntpd
    758 root     32   0  21716K   832K RUN    0:00 0.00% 0.00% top
    560 root      2   0   8208K  1088K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% rmopd
    561 root      2   0   8188K  1156K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cosd
    559 root      2   0   1632K   840K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ilmid
    573 lab       2   0   7480K  2580K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cli
    751 root      2   0  12716K  3944K kqread 0:00 0.00% 0.00% rpd
    558 root      2  20   8708K  1880K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sampled
    555 root      2   0   1856K   932K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% vrrpd
    686 root      2   0    7808K   940K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% apsd
    

    Meaning

    The sample output shows that the routing protocol process (rpd) was restarted because the process identifier (PID) of the process was renamed from 685, as shown in the Sample Output 1, to 751 as shown in Sample Output 2.

    Published: 2012-06-27