Users Guide

• Protocol tasks — OSPF, RIP, and ACL, and so on. Process restart is not currently available for protocol tasks; the failover
procedure is executed immediately after software exception.
• Line card processes — IPC, Event Log Agent, Line Card Manager, and so on. Process restart is not currently available for line
card processes; the failover procedure is executed immediately after software exception.
Enabling Process Restartability
The restart time varies by process.
In general, interface-related processes are hitless and can be restarted in seconds; if a restart is successful, traffic is not
interrupted. Protocol tasks and line card processes are not hitless and take longer to restart. You can select which process may
attempt to restart and the number of consecutive restart attempts before failover, but by default, every process fails over.
• Enable process restartability for a process or task.
CONFIGURATION mode
process restartable [process] [try number] [timestamp hours]
• Display the processes and tasks configured for restart.
EXEC Privilege
When a process restarts, FTOS displays a message similar to the following message.
[9/18 23:22:21] TME-(tme): Starting to restart the failed process tacplus
[9/18 23:22:41] TME-(tme): Finishing restarting the failed process tacplus
You can specify the timestamp in hour(s) so that if the number of attempts to restart exceeds the maximum allowed within this
timestamp, Restart mode is changed into Failover mode from that moment forward. This means that the next time the crashed
process does NOT restart but failover to the standby RPM if it is on a dual RPM environment and rebooted if it is on a single
RPM.
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