Daemons Flashcards
1
Q
Whats a Daemon?
A
Its a service process.
2
Q
What are the benefits of using a daemon?
A
they have their own isolated memory space so have some fault isolation.
Is one crashes it can be restarted without a full box reboot
Less likely a new feature (via a new daemon) introduces new bugs or breaks anything existing.
3
Q
What are the 5 important Daemons we need to remember?
A
RPD - Routing Protocol Daemon
chassisd - Chassis Daemon
mgd - Management Daemon
dcd - device control daemon
analyticsd - provides data and reporting
4
Q
how do you view running daemons?
A
show system processes
show system processes extensive
show system processes extensive | except 0.00
5
Q
how do you restart a daemon?
A
restart <daemon>
restart ? to list them.</daemon>
