Using Systemd to manage the PowerConnect Cloud Agent

The PowerConnect Cloud agent can be managed by Systemd.

1. Create the powerconnect systemd service file:

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/powerconnect.service

2. Populate the contents as follows:

3. Set the POWERCONNECT_SECRET variable placeholder with a value as shown above

4. Alternatively to avoid including the POWERCONNECT_SECRET directly in the systemd service file you can create an environment file containing the secret which is only readable by the powerconnect user

   1. touch /home/powerconnect/pcenv

   2. Populate the environment file with the secret
      POWERCONNECT_SECRET=<insert secret>

   3. Refer to the environment file in the systemd config

      [Unit] Description=PowerConnect Cloud agent [Service] EnvironmentFile=<insert env file location here> e.g. /home/powerconnect/pcenv # Environment=POWERCONNECT_MEMBERS=<insert members here> SuccessExitStatus=143 User=powerconnect Group=powerconnect Type=forking Restart=on-failure RestartSec=30 ExecStart=/bin/bash /opt/powerconnect/bin/powerconnect.sh start ExecStop=/bin/bash /opt/powerconnect/bin/powerconnect.sh stop [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

5. Uncomment and set the POWERCONNECT_MEMBERS variable if running a cluster

6. Reload the Systemd service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

7. Start the PowerConnect Cloud agent using Systemd:

sudo systemctl start powerconnect.service

8. Check the status:

systemctl status powerconnect

9. To have Systemd start the PowerConnect Cloud agent when the host starts up:

sudo systemctl enable powerconnect