Linux Services

Blueworx supports services and the systemctl command. Each Blueworx component has its own service and can be controlled directly.

The services are:

Starting

To start a Blueworx component the following command is used:

where SERVICENAME is one of the Blueworx services.

For example to start BRM:

Stopping

To stop a Blueworx component the following command is used:

where SERVICENAME is one of the Blueworx services.

For example to stop BRM:

Monitoring

To check the status of the Blueworx components the following command is used:

To view a specific Blueworx component the following command is used:

where SERVICENAME is one of the Blueworx services.

To view startup information the following command is used:

Enabling automatic startup

To enable a Blueworx component to automatically start when the Linux machine is started the following command is used:

where SERVICENAME is one of the Blueworx services.

For example to start BRM:

Disabling automatic startup

To disable a Blueworx component from automatically starting when the Linux machine is started the following command is used:

where SERVICENAME is one of the Blueworx services.

For example to stop BRM:

Note: Startup issues can be examined using the journalctl command and also the Blueworx component logs (eg bvr.out etc)
Note: systemctl can not track changes made using the Blueworx commands. For example if BVR is started with bvr -s then systemctl status blueworx-bvr will NOT show BVR started