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  1. Administration
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  3. Post-Install Actions

Start and Stop NSO

Start and stop the NSO daemon.

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Applies to Local Install.

The command ncs -h shows various options when starting NSO. By default, NSO starts in the background without an associated terminal. It is recommended to add NSO to the /etc/init scripts of the deployment hosts. For more information, see the in Manual Pages.

Whenever you start (or reload) the NSO daemon, it reads its configuration from ./ncs.conf or ${NCS_DIR}/etc/ncs/ncs.conf or from the file specified with the -c option. Parts of the configuration can also be placed in the ncs.conf.d directory that must be placed next to the actual ncs.conf file.

$ ncs
$ ncs --stop
$ ncs -h
...
ncs(1)