app.forking

Simplest configuration:

[app#0]
type = forking
svcmgr -s <svcname> set --kw app#0.type=forking

check

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

true execute <script> status on status evaluation. false do nothing on status evaluation. <shlex expression> execute the command on status evaluation.

check_timeout

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

duration

Wait for <duration> before declaring the app launcher check action a failure. Takes precedence over timeout. If neither timeout nor check_timeout is set, the agent waits indefinitely for the app launcher to return. A timeout can be coupled with optional=true to not abort a service instance check when an app launcher did not return.

configs_environment

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

[]

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

shlex

The whitespace separated list of <var>=<config name>/<key path>. A shell expression splitter is applied, so double quotes can be around <config name>/<key path> only or whole <var>=<config name>/<key path>. Variables are uppercased.

cwd

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

Change the working directory to the specified location instead of the default <pathtmp>.

environment

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

[]

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

shlex

The whitespace separated list of <var>=<config name>/<key path>. A shell expression splitter is applied, so double quotes can be around <config name>/<key path> only or whole <var>=<config name>/<key path>. Variables are uppercased.

group

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

If the binary is owned by the root user, run it as the specified group instead of root.

info

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

true execute <script> info on info action. false do nothing on info action. <shlex expression> execute the command on info action.

info_timeout

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

duration

Wait for <duration> before declaring the app launcher info action a failure. Takes precedence over timeout. If neither timeout nor info_timeout is set, the agent waits indefinitely for the app launcher to return. A timeout can be coupled with optional=true to not abort a service instance info when an app launcher did not return.

limit_as

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_core

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_cpu

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

duration

limit_data

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_fsize

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_memlock

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_nofile

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_nproc

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_rss

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_stack

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

limit_vmem

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

size

retcodes

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

0:up 1:down

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

The whitespace separated list of <retcode>:<status name>. All undefined retcodes are mapped to the ‘warn’ status.

script

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

Full path to the app launcher script. Or its basename if the file is hosted in the <pathetc>/<namespace>/<kind>/<name>.d/ path. This script must accept as arg0 the activated actions word: start for start, stop for stop, status for check, info for info.

secrets_environment

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

[]

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

shlex

A whitespace separated list of <var>=<secret name>/<key path>. A shell expression splitter is applied, so double quotes can be around <secret name>/<key path> only or whole <var>=<secret name>/<key path>. Variables are uppercased.

start

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

true execute <script> start on start action. false do nothing on start action. <shlex expression> execute the command on start.

start_timeout

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

duration

Wait for <duration> before declaring the app launcher start action a failure. Takes precedence over timeout. If neither timeout nor start_timeout is set, the agent waits indefinitely for the app launcher to return. A timeout can be coupled with optional=true to not abort a service instance start when an app launcher did not return.

status_log

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

boolean

Redirect the checker script stdout to the resource status info-log, and stderr to warn-log. The default is false, for it is common the checker scripts outputs are not tuned for opensvc.

stop

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

true execute <script> stop on stop action. false do nothing on stop action. <shlex expression> execute the command on stop action.

stop_timeout

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

duration

Wait for <duration> before declaring the app launcher stop action a failure. Takes precedence over timeout. If neither timeout nor stop_timeout is set, the agent waits indefinitely for the app launcher to return. A timeout can be coupled with optional=true to not abort a service instance stop when an app launcher did not return.

timeout

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

duration

Wait for <duration> before declaring the app launcher action a failure. Can be overridden by <action>_timeout. If no timeout is set, the agent waits indefinitely for the app launcher to return. A timeout can be coupled with optional=true to not abort a service instance action when an app launcher did not return.

umask

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

The umask to set for the application process.

user

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

If the binary is owned by the root user, run it as the specified user instead of root.

blocking_post_provision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource provision action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_post_start

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource start action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_post_startstandby

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource startstandby action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_post_stop

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource stop action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_post_unprovision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource unprovision action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_pre_provision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource provision action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_pre_start

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource start action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_pre_startstandby

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource startstandby action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_pre_stop

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource stop action. Errors interrupt the action.

blocking_pre_unprovision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource unprovision action. Errors interrupt the action.

comment

scopable

False

required

False

provisioning

False

default

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

Helps users understand the role of the service and resources, which is nice to on-call support people having to operate on a service they are not usually responsible for.

disable

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

candidates

True | False

convert

boolean

A disabled resource will be ignored on service startup and shutdown. Its status is always reported n/a.

Set in DEFAULT, the whole service is disabled. A disabled service does not honor start and stop actions. These actions immediately return success.

om <path> disable only sets DEFAULT.disable. As resources disabled state is not changed, om <path> enable does not enable disabled resources.

encap

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

candidates

True | False

convert

boolean

Set to true to ignore this resource in the nodes context and consider it in the encapnodes context. The resource is thus handled by the agents deployed in the service containers.

monitor

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

candidates

True | False

convert

boolean

A down monitored resource will trigger a node suicide if the monitor thinks it should be up and the resource can not be restarted.

optional

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

true for tasks, syncs and resources tagged ‘noaction’, else false

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

tristate

Action failures on optional resources are logged but do not stop the action sequence. Also the optional resource status is not aggregated to the instance ‘availstatus’, but aggregated to the ‘overallstatus’. Resource tagged noaction and sync resources are automatically considered optional. Useful for resources like dump filesystems for example.

pg_blkio_weight

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

convert

integer

Block IO relative weight. Value: between 10 and 1000. Kernel default: 1000.

pg_cpu_quota

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

The percent ratio of one core to allocate to the process group if % is specified, else the absolute value to set in the process group parameter. For example, on Linux cgroups, -1 means unlimited, and a positive absolute value means the number of microseconds to allocate each period. 50%@all means 50% of all cores, and 50%@2 means 50% of two cores.

pg_cpu_shares

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

convert

integer

Kernel default value is used, which usually is 1024 shares. In a cpu-bound situation, ensure the service does not use more than its share of cpu ressource. The actual percentile depends on shares allowed to other services.

pg_cpus

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

Allow service process to bind only the specified cpus. Cpus are specified as list or range : 0,1,2 or 0-2

pg_mem_limit

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

convert

size

Ensures the service does not use more than specified memory (in bytes). The Out-Of-Memory killer get triggered in case of tresspassing.

pg_mem_oom_control

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

convert

integer

A flag (0 or 1) that enables or disables the Out of Memory killer for a cgroup. If enabled (0), tasks that attempt to consume more memory than they are allowed are immediately killed by the OOM killer. The OOM killer is enabled by default in every cgroup using the memory subsystem; to disable it, write 1.

pg_mem_swappiness

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

convert

integer

Set a swappiness value for the process group.

pg_mems

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

Allow service process to bind only the specified memory nodes. Memory nodes are specified as list or range : 0,1,2 or 0-2

pg_vmem_limit

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

depends

create_pg in [True]

convert

size

Ensures the service does not use more than specified memory+swap (in bytes). The Out-Of-Memory killer get triggered in case of tresspassing. The specified value must be greater than pg_mem_limit.

post_provision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource provision action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

post_start

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource start action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

post_startstandby

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource startstandby action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

post_stop

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource stop action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

post_unprovision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute after the resource unprovision action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

pre_provision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource provision action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

pre_start

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource start action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

pre_startstandby

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource startstandby action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

pre_stop

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource stop action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

pre_unprovision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A command or script to execute before the resource unprovision action. Errors do not interrupt the action.

provision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

True

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

candidates

True | False

convert

boolean

Set to false to skip the resource on provision and unprovision actions. Warning: Provision implies destructive operations like formating. Unprovision destroys service data.

provision_requires

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A whitespace-separated list of conditions to meet to accept running a ‘provision’ action. A condition is expressed as <rid>(<state>,...). If states are omitted, up,stdby up is used as the default expected states.

restart

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

0

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

integer

The agent will try to restart a resource <n> times before falling back to the monitor action. A resource restart is triggered if :the resource is not disabled and its status is not up, and the node is not frozen, and the service instance is not frozen and its local expect is set to started. If a resource has a restart set to a value >0, its status is evaluated at the frequency defined by DEFAULT.monitor_schedule instead of the frequency defined by DEFAULT.status_schedule. restart_delay defines the interval between two restarts. Standby resources have a particular value to ensure best effort to restart standby resources, default value is 2, and value lower than 2 are changed to 2.

restart_delay

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

0

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

duration

Define minimum delay between two triggered restarts of a same resource (used when :kw:`restart`is defined). Default value is 0 (no delay).

shared

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

False

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

candidates

True | False

convert

boolean

Set to true to skip the resource on provision and unprovision actions if the action has already been done by a peer. Shared resources, like vg built on SAN disks must be provisioned once. All resources depending on a shared resource must also be flagged as shared.

standby

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

tristate

Always start the resource, even on standby instances. The daemon is responsible for starting standby resources. A resource can be set standby on a subset of nodes using keyword scoping.

A typical use-case is sync’ed fs on non-shared disks: the remote fs must be mounted to not overflow the underlying fs.

Warning

Don’t set shared resources standby: fs on shared disks for example.

start_requires

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A whitespace-separated list of conditions to meet to accept running a ‘start’ action. A condition is expressed as <rid>(<state>,...). If states are omitted, up,stdby up is used as the default expected states.

stop_requires

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A whitespace-separated list of conditions to meet to accept running a ‘stop’ action. A condition is expressed as <rid>(<state>,...). If states are omitted, up,stdby up is used as the default expected states.

subset

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

None

inheritance

leaf

scope order

specific > generic

Assign the resource to a specific subset.

tags

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

convert

set

A list of tags. Arbitrary tags can be used to limit action scope to resources with a specific tag. Some tags can influence the driver behaviour. For example noaction avoids any state changing action from the driver and implies optional=true, nostatus forces the status to n/a.

unprovision

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

True

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

candidates

True | False

convert

boolean

Set to false to skip the resource on unprovision actions. Warning: Unprovision destroys service data.

unprovision_requires

scopable

True

required

False

provisioning

False

default

inheritance

leaf > head

scope order

specific > generic

A whitespace-separated list of conditions to meet to accept running a ‘unprovision’ action. A condition is expressed as <rid>(<state>,...). If states are omitted, up,stdby up is used as the default expected states.