Start PIM on Boot

Products

• CA Virtual Privilege Manager
• CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM)
• CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM)

Issue/Introduction

This document describes how to configure a Linux box which is using the System V init scripts (e.g.  RHEL 6.5) to automatically startup and shutdown the PIM daemons upon startup or shutdown of the box.

Environment

Release: ACP1M005900-12.9-Privileged Identity Manager
Component: PIM / PAMSC endpoints for Linux

Resolution

1. Copy the sample init script to the init scripts directory:

# cp /opt/CA/AccessControl/samples/system.init/LINUX/S95seos /etc/rc.d/init.d/seos

 

2. Make the file executable 

# chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/seos

 

3. Run these commands to enable execution of the script in Runlevel 3 and 5 and confirm the setting

# chkconfig --add seos

# chkconfig --level 3 seos on

# chkconfig --level 5 seos on

# chkconfig --list | grep seos

As a sidenote, you can find out which run-level you're currently using:

# runlevel

N 5

 

4. It is necessary to amend the seos init script to place a relevant lock file upon startup (else the init system does not execute the stop sequence)
e.g.
...
start)
        if [ -x ${SEOSBIN}/seload ] ; then
                PrintMessageByNumber 565 $MESSAGE_CASE newLine noArgs
                "  loading CA ControlMinder ..."
                sleep 5
                ${SEOSBIN}/seload > /dev/null &
                touch /var/lock/subsys/seos
                is_loaded
...

After doing so the K50seos scripts are triggered correctly upon system shutdown.