diff --git a/restore-cassandra.groovy b/restore-cassandra.groovy
index fb1259f..7285c40 100644
--- a/restore-cassandra.groovy
+++ b/restore-cassandra.groovy
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@
             try {
                 salt.enforceState(pepperEnv, 'I@opencontrail:control or I@opencontrail:collector', 'opencontrail.upgrade.verify', true, true)
             } catch (Exception er) {
-                common.errorMsg("Opencontrail controllers health check stage found issues with services. Please take a look at the logs above.")
-                throw er
+                common.errorMsg("Opencontrail controllers health check stage found issues with currently running services.")
             }
         }
 
@@ -101,6 +100,14 @@
                     common.errorMsg('An error has been occurred during analytics containers startup: ' + err.getMessage())
                     throw err
                 }
+                // contrail-control service needs to be restart after db sync to re-initialize with recovered data
+                try {
+                    common.infoMsg("Restart contrail-control services on control nodes")
+                    salt.cmdRun(pepperEnv, 'I@opencontrail:control', 'doctrail controller service contrail-control restart')
+                } catch (Exception err) {
+                    common.errorMsg('An error has been occurred during contrail-control services restart: ' + err.getMessage())
+                    throw err
+                }
             } else {
                 try {
                     salt.runSaltProcessStep(pepperEnv, 'I@opencontrail:control', 'service.stop', ['supervisor-config'], null, true)