Creating new service definition in systemctl

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Enabling start on bootup and stop on shutdown 

Environment

Watch4Net 7.x

Cause

Default Watch4Net installation does not add the service to sytemctl

Resolution

• Create the new Watch4Net service file
  

  vi /etc/systemd/system/watch4net.service

• Add the following and update the path to manage-modules.sh script as needed.
  

  Description=Watch4Net Service
  
  [Service]
  ExecStart=/opt/APG-7.7.0.3/bin/manage-modules.sh service start all
  ExecStop=/opt/APG-7.7.0.3/bin/manage-modules.sh service stop all
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  
  systemctl daemon-reload
  
  systemctl enable watch4net

• Load the new Watch4Net service definition file
  

  systemctl daemon-reload

• Activate the Watch4Net service
  

  systemctl enable watch4net