In a telecommunications network provisioned with different types of restoration processes, to ensure that the operation of one restoration process does not infringe upon other nodes that are actively executing a different restoration process, a request is sent by one of the restoration processes, under the guise of the operation system that oversees that process, to the operation system that oversees the other restoration process. The controller of the nodes that are performing the other restoration process, in receipt of the request, sends a disable restoration process message to those nodes under its control. Each of those nodes, upon receipt of the disable restoration process message, would disable the restoration process it is provisioned with so long as it is not actively engaging in that restoration process. If it is, it will continue to execute that restoration process until a safe stop point is reached, at which time it ceases that restoration process. Upon cessation of the particular restoration process, the node sends an acknowledge message to its controller, which, when in receipt of such acknowledge message from all of the nodes under its control, sends a disable acknowledged message to the controller of the first restoration process informing the latter that the nodes under its control can now be operated using the first restoration process. The above method is applicable to a telecommunications network provisioned with multiple layers of restoration processes including for example DRA, RTR and centralized restoration.