How to Restart any Domino Server Task

Friday 14th September, 2007
For many of us, we all know you can issue a "TELL HTTP RESTART" to quit and reload the Domino HTTP Task.  However, issuing a "TELL ROUTER RESTART" will not work.  For those people who have been around Domino to long and quit reading about all the new little features that are introduced, I just came across something that was introduced in Domino 6 and decided to share it since another long time Domino Admin of 10 years did not realize this new command was new available.

Starting in Domino 6, there is a new command that can be used to shut down and restart any task:

restart task [taskname]

For example, to restart the Router task:

> restart task router
mm/dd/yyyy 12:50:22 PM  Router: Shutdown is in progress
mm/dd/yyyy 12:50:22 PM  Mail Router shutdown
mm/dd/yyyy 12:50:22 PM  Mail Router started for domain IBM
mm/dd/yyyy 12:50:22 PM  Router: Internet SMTP host TEST in domain test.com

More Info at:  http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21090075

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