Reboot the JUNOS Software

Purpose

Reboot JUNOS software after a software upgrade and occasionally to recover from an error condition.

Action

To reboot the JUNOS software, use the following JUNOS CLI operational mode command:

user@host> request system reboot

Sample Output

user@host> request system reboot
Reboot the system ? [yes,no] (no) yes

shutdown: [pid 845]
Shutdown NOW!


*** FINAL System shutdown message from root@host ***
System going down IMMEDIATELY


user@host> Dec 17 17:34:20 init: syslogd (PID 409) exited with status=0 Normal Exit
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped

syncing disks... 10 6
done
Uptime: 2m45s
ata0: resetting devices .. done
Rebooting...

What It Means

The sample output shows the final stages of the system shutdown and the execution of the reboot. Reboot requests are recorded to the system log files, which you can view with the show log messages command. You can view the process names with the show system processes command. For more information about the show system processes command, see Check That the Process Has Restarted. For more detailed information about rebooting your system, see the JUNOS System Basics and Services Command Reference.