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Syntax

Syntax (ACX Series Routers)

Syntax (EX Series Switches)

Syntax (MX Series Routers)

Syntax (QFX Series)

Syntax (Routing Matrix)

Syntax (SRX Series)

Syntax (TX Matrix Routers)

Syntax (TX Matrix Plus Routers)

Syntax (QFX Series)

Description

Restart a Junos OS process.

CAUTION:

Never restart a software process unless instructed to do so by a customer support engineer. A restart might cause the router or switch to drop calls and interrupt transmission, resulting in possible loss of data.

The restart command expands all applications names including applications that are not required for the current platform. Therefore, a user could try to do a restart for an application that is not running for the current platform. This error message communicates that the restart failed because the application was not running on the system.

Options

none

Same as gracefully.

adaptive-services

(Optional) Restart the configuration management process that manages the configuration for stateful firewall, Network Address Translation (NAT), intrusion detection services (IDS), and IP Security (IPsec) services on the Adaptive Services PIC.

all-chassis

(TX Matrix and TX Matrix Plus routers only) (Optional) Restart the software process on all chassis.

all-lcc

(TX Matrix and TX Matrix Plus routers only) (Optional) For a TX Matrix router, restart the software process on all T640 routers connected to the TX Matrix router. For a TX Matrix Plus router, restart the software process on all T1600 routers connected to the TX Matrix Plus router.

all-members

(MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the software process for all members of the Virtual Chassis configuration.

all-sfc

(TX Matrix Plus routers only) (Optional) For a TX Matrix Plus router, restart the software processes for the TX Matrix Plus router (or switch-fabric chassis).

ancpd-service

(Optional) Restart the Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP) process, which works with a special Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) session to collect outgoing interface mapping events in a scalable manner.

application-identification

(Optional) Restart the process that identifies an application using intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) to allow or deny traffic based on applications running on standard or nonstandard ports.

application-security

(Optional) Restart the application security process.

audit-process

(Optional) Restart the RADIUS accounting process that gathers statistical data that can be used for general network monitoring, analyzing, and tracking usage patterns, for billing a user based on the amount of time or type of services accessed.

auto-configuration

(Optional) Restart the Interface Auto-Configuration process.

autoinstallation

(EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the autoinstallation process.

bbe-stats-service

(MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart bbe-statsd, the BBE statistics collection and management process.

captive-portal-content-delivery

(Optional) Restart the HTTP redirect service by specifying the location to which a subscriber's initial Web browser session is redirected, enabling initial provisioning and service selection for the subscriber.

ce-l2tp-service

(M10, M10i, M7i, and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the Universal Edge Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) process, which establishes L2TP tunnels and Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) sessions through L2TP tunnels.

chassis-control

(Optional) Restart the chassis management process.

class-of-service

(Optional) Restart the class-of-service (CoS) process, which controls the router's or switch’s CoS configuration.

clksyncd-service

(Optional) Restart the external clock synchronization process, which uses synchronous Ethernet (SyncE).

commitd-service

(Optional) Restart the committed services.

database-replication

(EX Series switches and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the database replication process.

datapath-trace-service

(Optional) Restart the packet path tracing process.

dhcp

(EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the software process for a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. A DHCP server allocates network IP addresses and delivers configuration settings to client hosts without user intervention.

dhcp-service

(Optional) Restart the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol process.

dialer-services

(EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the ISDN dial-out process.

diameter-service

(Optional) Restart the diameter process.

disk-monitoring

(Optional) Restart disk monitoring, which checks the health of the hard disk drive on the Routing Engine.

dlsw

(QFX Series only) (Optional) Restart the data link switching (DLSw) service.

dot1x-protocol

(EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the port-based network access control process.

dynamic-flow-capture

(Optional) Restart the dynamic flow capture (DFC) process, which controls DFC configurations on Monitoring Services III PICs.

ecc-error-logging

(Optional) Restart the error checking and correction (ECC) process, which logs ECC parity errors in memory on the Routing Engine.

ethernet-connectivity-fault-management

(Optional) Restart the process that provides IEEE 802.1ag Operation, Administration, and Management (OAM) connectivity fault management (CFM) database information for CFM maintenance association end points (MEPs) in a CFM session.

ethernet-link-fault-management

(EX Series switches and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the process that provides the OAM link fault management (LFM) information for Ethernet interfaces.

ethernet-switching

(EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the Ethernet switching process.

event-processing

(Optional) Restart the event process (eventd).

extensible-subscriber-services

(Optional) Restart the extensible subscriber services process.

fibre-channel

(QFX Series only) (Optional) Restart the Fibre Channel process.

fipsd

(Optional) Restart the fipsd services.

firewall

(Optional) Restart the firewall management process, which manages the firewall configuration and enables accepting or rejecting packets that are transiting an interface on a router or switch.

general-authentication-service

(EX Series switches and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the general authentication process.

gprs-process

(Optional) Restart the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) process.

gracefully

(Optional) Restart the software process.

iccp-service

(Optional) Restart the Inter-Chassis Communication Protocol (ICCP) process.

idp-policy

(Optional) Restart the intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) protocol process.

immediately

(Optional) Immediately restart the software process.

interface-control

(Optional) Restart the interface process, which controls the router's or switch’s physical interface devices and logical interfaces.

ipmi

(Optional) Restart the intelligent platform management interface process.

ipsec-key-management

(Optional) Restart the IPsec key management process.

isdn-signaling

(QFX Series only) (Optional) Restart the ISDN signaling process, which initiates ISDN connections.

jflow-service

(Optional) Restart jflow service process.

jnu-management

(Optional) Restart jnu management process.

jnx-wmicd-service

(Optional) Restart jnx wmicd service process.

jsrp-service

(Optional) Restart the Juniper Services Redundancy Protocol (jsrdp) process, which controls chassis clustering.

kernel-health-monitoring

(Optional) Restart the Routing Engine kernel health monitoring process, which enables health parameter data to be sent from kernel components to data collection applications. When you change the polling interval through sysctl kern.jkhmd_polling_time_secs, you must restart the kernel health monitoring process for the new polling interval to take effect.

kernel-replication

(Optional) Restart the kernel replication process, which replicates the state of the backup Routing Engine when graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES) is configured.

l2-learning

(Optional) Restart the Layer 2 address flooding and learning process.

l2cpd-service

(Optional) Restart the Layer 2 Control Protocol process, which enables features such as Layer 2 protocol tunneling and nonstop bridging.

l2tp-service

(M10, M10i, M7i, and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) process, which sets up client services for establishing Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) tunnels across a network and negotiating Multilink PPP if it is implemented.

l2tp-universal-edge

(MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the L2TP process, which establishes L2TP tunnels and PPP sessions through L2TP tunnels.

lacp

(Optional) Restart the Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) process. LACP provides a standardized means for exchanging information between partner systems on a link to allow their link aggregation control instances to reach agreement on the identity of the LAG to which the link belongs, and then to move the link to that LAG, and to enable the transmission and reception processes for the link to function in an orderly manner.

lcc number

(TX Matrix and TX Matrix Plus routers only) (Optional) For a TX Matrix router, restart the software process for a specific T640 router that is connected to the TX Matrix router. For a TX Matrix Plus router, restart the software process for a specific router that is connected to the TX Matrix Plus router.

Replace number with the following values depending on the LCC configuration:

  • 0 through 3, when T640 routers are connected to a TX Matrix router in a routing matrix.

  • 0 through 3, when T1600 routers are connected to a TX Matrix Plus router in a routing matrix.

  • 0 through 7, when T1600 routers are connected to a TX Matrix Plus router with 3D SIBs in a routing matrix.

  • 0, 2, 4, or 6, when T4000 routers are connected to a TX Matrix Plus router with 3D SIBs in a routing matrix.

license-service

(EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the feature license management process.

link-management

(TX Matrix and TX Matrix Plus routers and EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the Link Management Protocol (LMP) process, which establishes and maintains LMP control channels.

lldpd-service

(EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) process.

local

(MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the software process for the local Virtual Chassis member.

local-policy-decision-function

(Optional) Restart the process for the Local Policy Decision Function, which regulates collection of statistics related to applications and application groups and tracking of information about dynamic subscribers and static interfaces.

logical-system-service

(Optional) Restart the logical system service process.

mac-validation

(Optional) Restart the Media Access Control (MAC) validation process, which configures MAC address validation for subscriber interfaces created on demux interfaces in dynamic profiles on MX Series routers.

member member-id

(MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the software process for a specific member of the Virtual Chassis configuration. Replace member-id with a value of 0 or 1.

mib-process

(Optional) Restart the Management Information Base (MIB) version II process, which provides the router's MIB II agent.

mobile-ip

(Optional) Restart the Mobile IP process, which configures Junos OS Mobile IP features.

mountd-service

(EX Series switches and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the service for NFS mount requests.

mpls-traceroute

(Optional) Restart the MPLS Periodic Traceroute process.

mspd

(Optional) Restart the Multiservice process.

multicast-snooping

(EX Series switches and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the multicast snooping process, which makes Layer 2 devices, such as VLAN switches, aware of Layer 3 information, such as the media access control (MAC) addresses of members of a multicast group.

named-service

(Optional) Restart the DNS Server process, which is used by a router or a switch to resolve hostnames into addresses.

network-access-service

( QFX Series only) (Optional) Restart the network access process, which provides the router's Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) authentication service.

network-security

(Optional) Restart the network security process.

network-security-trace

(Optional) Restart the network security trace process.

nfsd-service

(Optional) Restart the Remote NFS Server process, which provides remote file access for applications that need NFS-based transport.

ntpd-service

(Optional) Restart the Network Time Protocol (NTP) process.

packet-triggered-subscribers

(Optional) Restart the packet-triggered subscribers and policy control (PTSP) process, which allows the application of policies to dynamic subscribers that are controlled by a subscriber termination device.

peer-selection-service

(Optional) Restart the Peer Selection Service process.

pgcp-service

(Optional) Restart the pgcpd service process running on the Routing Engine. This option does not restart pgcpd processes running on mobile station PICs. To restart pgcpd processes running on mobile station PICs, use the services pgcp gateway option.

pgm

(Optional) Restart the process that implements the Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) protocol for assisting in the reliable delivery of multicast packets.

pic-services-logging

(Optional) Restart the logging process for some PICs. With this process, also known as fsad (the file system access daemon), PICs send special logging information to the Routing Engine for archiving on the hard disk.

pki-service

(Optional) Restart the PKI Service process.

ppp

(Optional) Restart the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) process, which is the encapsulation protocol process for transporting IP traffic across point-to-point links.

ppp-service

(Optional) Restart the Universal edge PPP process, which is the encapsulation protocol process for transporting IP traffic across universal edge routers.

pppoe

(Optional) Restart the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) process, which combines PPP that typically runs over broadband connections with the Ethernet link-layer protocol that allows users to connect to a network of hosts over a bridge or access concentrator.

profilerd

(Optional) Restart the profiler process.

protected-system-domain-service

(Optional) Restart the Protected System Domain (PSD) process.

redundancy-interface-process

(Optional) Restart the ASP redundancy process.

remote-operations

(Optional) Restart the remote operations process, which provides the ping and traceroute MIBs.

rest-api

(Optional) Restart the rest api process.

root-system-domain-service

(Optional) Restart the Root System Domain (RSD) service.

routing

(ACX Series routers, QFX Series, EX Series switches, and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the routing protocol process.

routing <logical-system logical-system-name>

(Optional) Restart the routing protocol process, which controls the routing protocols that run on the router or switch and maintains the routing tables. Optionally, restart the routing protocol process for the specified logical system only.

sampling

(Optional) Restart the sampling process, which performs packet sampling based on particular input interfaces and various fields in the packet header.

sampling-route-record

(Optional) Restart the sampling route record process.

sbc-configuration-process

(Optional) Restart the session border controller (SBC) process of the border signaling gateway (BSG).

scc

(TX Matrix routers only) (Optional) Restart the software process on the TX Matrix router (or switch-card chassis).

scc-chassisd

(Optional) Restart the scc chassisd process.

sdk-service

(Optional) Restart the SDK Service process, which runs on the Routing Engine and is responsible for communications between the SDK application and Junos OS. Although the SDK Service process is present on the router, it is turned off by default.

secure-neighbor-discovery

(QFX Series, EX Series switches, and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) process, which provides support for protecting NDP messages.

security-intelligence

(Optional) Restart security intelligence process.

security-log

(Optional) Restart the security log process.

sfc number

(TX Matrix Plus routers only) (Optional) Restart the software process on the TX Matrix Plus router (or switch-fabric chassis). Replace number with 0.

service-deployment

(Optional) Restart the service deployment process, which enables Junos OS to work with the Session and Resource Control (SRC) software.

services

(Optional) Restart a service.

services pgcp gateway gateway-name

(Optional) Restart the pgcpd process for a specific border gateway function (BGF) running on an MS-PIC. This option does not restart the pgcpd process running on the Routing Engine. To restart the pgcpd process on the Routing Engine, use the pgcp-service option.

sflow-service

(EX Series switches only) (Optional) Restart the flow sampling (sFlow technology) process.

simple-mail-client-service

(Optional) Restart the simple mail client service process.

snmp

(Optional) Restart the SNMP process, which enables the monitoring of network devices from a central location and provides the router's or switch’s SNMP master agent.

soft

(Optional) Reread and reactivate the configuration without completely restarting the software processes. For example, BGP peers stay up and the routing table stays constant. Omitting this option results in a graceful restart of the software process.

static-routed

(Optional) Restart the static routed process.

static-subscribers

(Optional) Restart the static subscribers process, which associates subscribers with statically configured interfaces and provides dynamic service activation and activation for these subscribers.

statistics-service

(Optional) Restart the process that manages the Packet Forwarding Engine statistics.

subscriber-management

(Optional) Restart the Subscriber Management process.

subscriber-management-helper

(Optional) Restart the Subscriber Management Helper process.

system-log-vital

(Optional) Restart system log vital process.

tunnel-oamd

(Optional) Restart the Tunnel OAM process, which enables the Operations, Administration, and Maintenance of Layer 2 tunneled networks. Layer 2 protocol tunneling (L2PT) allows service providers to send Layer 2 protocol data units (PDUs) across the provider’s cloud and deliver them to Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches that are not part of the local broadcast domain.

uac-service

(Optional) Restart the Unified Access Control (UAC) process.

usb-control

(MX Series routers) (Optional) Restart the USB control process.

user-ad-authentication

(Optional) Restart User ad Authentication process

vrrp

(ACX Series routers, EX Series switches, and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) process, which enables hosts on a LAN to make use of redundant routing platforms on that LAN without requiring more than the static configuration of a single default route on the hosts.

web-management

(QFX Series, EX Series switches, and MX Series routers only) (Optional) Restart the Web management process.

Required Privilege Level

reset

Output Fields

When you enter this command, you are provided feedback on the status of your request.

Sample Output

restart interfaces

restart interface-control gracefully

restart interface-control (Junos OS Evolved)

Release Information

Command introduced before Junos OS Release 7.4.

Options added:

  • dynamic-flow-capture in Junos OS Release 7.4.

  • dlsw in Junos OS Release 7.5.

  • event-processing in Junos OS Release 7.5.

  • ppp in Junos OS Release 7.5.

  • l2ald in Junos OS Release 8.0.

  • link-management in Junos Release 8.0.

  • pgcp-service in Junos OS Release 8.4.

  • sbc-configuration-process in Junos OS Release 9.5.

  • services pgcp gateway in Junos OS Release 9.6.

  • sfc and all-sfc for the TX Matrix Router in Junos OS Release 9.6.

  • Command introduced before Junos OS Release 9.2 on SRX Series Firewalls.

  • bbe-stats-service in Junos OS Release 18.4R1 on MX Series routers.

  • kernel-health-monitoring in Junos OS Release 19.1R1.

  • Introduced in Junos OS Evolved Release 19.1R1.