Shutting Down a Virtual BGF
You can shut down the virtual BGF in two ways—forced or graceful:
- Forced—The virtual BGF immediately removes all gates and disconnects from the gateway controller. The virtual BGF does not attempt to establish a new connection.
- Graceful—The virtual BGF goes out of service by entering a draining mode and waiting for all terminations to be subtracted before going out of service. During the draining, the virtual BGF accepts only subtract and audit commands from the gateway controller.
This subject consists of the following topics:
- Forcing the Shutdown of a Virtual BGF
- Performing a Graceful Shutdown of a Virtual BGF
- Making the Virtual BGF Operational Again
Forcing the Shutdown of a Virtual BGF
To perform a forced shutdown of the virtual BGF, enter set service-state out-of-service-forced at the [edit services pgcp gateway gateway-name] hierarchy level. For example:
[edit services pgcp gateway bgf-1]user@host# set service-state out-of-service-forced
Performing a Graceful Shutdown of a Virtual BGF
To perform a graceful shutdown of the virtual BGF, enter set service-state out-of-service-graceful at the [edit services pgcp gateway gateway-name] hierarchy level. For example:
[edit services pgcp gateway bgf-1]user@host# set service-state out-of-service-graceful
Making the Virtual BGF Operational Again
- To cause the virtual BGF to be operational again and available
for traffic, set the service state to in-service with the set service-state
in-service statement. When the virtual BGF is in service, it attempts
to connect to the gateway controller and accepts all PGCP commands
from the gateway controller. For example:[edit services pgcp gateway bgf-1]user@host# set service-state in-service

