sm_service install parameters and descriptions

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

This article explains the default sm_service install parameters and descriptions

Environment

Smarts 10.1.X

Resolution

Parameter	Description
--force	Overwrites an existing service with the same name. This parameter is used to update or modify the parameters of an existing service.
--name=<service_name>	Display name of the service.
--startmode=<mode>	Service start policy. The value for <mode> is one of the following: runonce (start automatically when sm_serviced starts) automatic (starts automatically when sm_serviced does not detect that it is running) manual (requires an explicit start request) disable (cannot be started) The default is runonce.
--description="<DESC>"	Short description of the service. Enclose the description with double quotation marks. On UNIX platforms, the description information is printed with the name of the service when the sm_service show action is invoked.
--env=<NAME>=VALUE>	Specifies environment variables. A <NAME>=<VALUE> pair that will be placed in the process environment of the launched service. As many --env pairs as necessary can be specified. The syntax <NAME>= (with no specified value) has the effect of unsetting <NAME> in the environment of the launched program. The --env arguments are applied left to right as they appear on the command line, and this ordering is preserved in the database.

Standard Options:

Parameter	Description
--help	Print help and exit.
--version	Print program version and exit.
--daemon	Run process as a daemon.
--logname=<name>	Use <name> to identify sender in the system log. Default: The program's name.
--loglevel=<level>	Minimum system logging level.   Default: Error.
--errlevel=<level>	Minimum error printing level.   Default: Warning.
--tracelevel=<level>	Minimum stack trace level. <level>:  One of None, Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, Warning, Notice, Informational, or Debug.   Fatal is a synonym for Critical. Default: Fatal.
--facility=<facility>	Non-Windows only. A case-insensitive string that identifies which facility to use for syslog messages. <facility>: One of Cron, Daemon, Kern, Local0-Local7, Lpr, Mail, News, Uucp, User.   Default: Daemon.
--output[=<file>]	Redirect server output (stdout and stderr).   The file name is <file>, or the --logname value if <file> is omitted.  Log files are always placed in $SM_LOGFILES or $SM_WRITEABLE/logs.
--accept=<host-list>	Accept connections only from hosts on <host-list>, a comma-separated list of hostnames and IP addresses. --accept=any allows any host to connect.   Default: --accept=any.
--useif=<ip-address>	Use this IP address as the source/destination interface address for SNMP and ICMP packets.
--privopen=<priv-list>	List of sockets that require privilege state before changed process to run in the account specified by --run-as-user. The <priv-list> is a comma separated list of type[:family]:protocol[,#count]. Type is TCP, UDP or IP. Family is v6 or v4. When the type is IP, Protocol is the protocol number (Eg: 1 for ICMP, 58 for ICMPv6). When the type isTCP/UDP, Protocol is the port number.
--run-as-user=username	Run as this user after opening privilege sockets.