OpsCenter start, stop, and restart commands

The following procedures are used to start stop, and restart OpsCenter for each type of installation.

Package installations

The available service opscenterd options are as follows:

sudo service opscenterd start|stop|status|restart|force-reload

Packaged installations include startup scripts in the /etc/init.d directory to run OpsCenter as a service.

For example, the following script starts OpsCenter on the node where the command runs.

sudo /etc/init.d/opscenterd start

Tarball installations

Start opscenterd:

Use the -f option to start the agent in the foreground.

install_location/bin/opscenter

Stop and restart opscenterd:

  1. To stop OpsCenter, find the opscenterd process ID (pid) and terminate the process using its PID number:

    ps -ef | grep opscenter
    sudo kill pid
  2. To start OpsCenter:

    Use the -f option to start the agent in the foreground.

    install_location/bin/opscenter

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