Services

The Services page of an AxoRouter or edge host shows information about the data collector or router services running on the host. This page is only available for managed pipeline elements.

The following information is displayed:

• Name: Name of the service
• Version: Version number of the service
• Type: Type of the service (which data collector or processor it’s running)
• Supervisor: The type of the supervisor process. For example, Splunk Connect for Syslog (sc4s) runs a syslog-ng process under the hood.

Icons and colors indicate the status of the service: running, stopped, or not registered.

Service configuration

To check the configuration of the service, select Configuration. This shows the list of related environment variables and configuration files. Select a file or environment variable to display its value. For example:

To display other details of the service (for example, the location of the configuration file or the binary), select Details.

Manage service

• To reload a registered service, select Reload.
• To restart a registered service, select Restart.

Register service manually

If Automatic service registration is disabled, or the service discovery is unable to find a running service, you can register it manually by specifying:

• the service’s control socket path, or
• the name of its managing systemd unit.

To register a service manually, complete the following steps.

1. Find the host and open its Services page.

2. Select Register static service.

3. Enter a name for the service. This name will be displayed in the services list.

   

4. Provide at least one of the following:

   • Control Socket Path: The path to the Unix domain socket used to communicate with the service, for example, /var/lib/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.ctl.
   • Systemd unit name: The name of the systemd service of the service you’re registering, for example, syslog-ng.service.

5. Select Register.