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Service management - Install or update service

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Description

Depending on Linux distribution and version, this option will have different names and functions:

Red Hat 6

Option name: Install or update service

Allows you to install (after fresh install) or update guests management service (kit upgrade).

(info) Service update does not require guests shutdown & restart

Red Hat 7+ and

Fedora

Option name: Manage 'systemd' services

Allows you to view the service status and update the service configuration file (to add dependencies, description, etc...)

(warning) Be extremely cautious when updating the file. Preferably limit updates to Description=, After=, Before=, Wants= parameters

Examples

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 server

Below, an alert is displayed telling the service must be reinstalled (after kit upgrade):

In this case, the current version 2.2c will be replaced by the 2.2d:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 server (using systemd)

First, we'll see the service status (1 above). We can see below the service is active and the startup sequence detected an anomaly: the virtual disk /data/disks/pluto_inex.vdisk defined in the configuration file does not exist or is empty:

Now, we're going to update the default service description, here "CHARON as4100/pluto", using the "vim" editor:

Result:



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