Process and Memory Management Commands on Cisco IOS-XR Software process mandatory
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Cisco IOS-XR System Management Command Reference
•If the process is not mandatory and cannot be restarted, it will stay down and the node will not
reboot.
Examples Turning the mandatory attribute on or off for a process
In the following example, the mandatory attribute is turned on for the “media_ether_config_di” process:
RP/0/RP1/CPU0:router# process mandatory on media_ether_config_di
Turning the reboot option on or off with the process mandatory reboot command
In the following example, the system is set to reboot the node if a mandatory process goes down and
cannot be restarted:
RP/0/RP1/CPU0:router# process mandatory reboot enable
RP/0/RP1/CPU0:Mar 19 19:28:10 : sysmgr[71]: %SYSMGR-4-MANDATORY_REBOOT_ENABLE :
mandatory reboot option enabled by request
In the following example, the system is set not to reboot the node if a mandatory process goes down and
cannot be restarted. In this case, the mandatory process will be restarted, but the node will not ne
rebooted.
RP/0/RP1/CPU0:router# process mandatory reboot disable
RP/0/RP1/CPU0:Mar 19 19:31:20 : sysmgr[71]: %SYSMGR-4-MANDATORY_REBOOT_OVERRIDE
: mandatory reboot option overridden by request
Related Commands Command Description
show processes Displays information, attributes and settings for a processes.