2.7 Changing System Services Configuration

The following system services are available on the Novell appliance, depending on which appliance you are accessing.

Filr Appliance

  • SSH: This is the SSH service that is running on the appliance.

  • Novell Filr: This is the Filr service that is running on the appliance. Click Download to access the appserver.log and catalina.out files.

  • Jetty: This is the Jetty service that is running on the appliance. Click Download to access the jetty.stderrout.out file.

  • Postfix: This is the Postfix SMTP outbound mail server. This allows email to be sent from the Filr site, as described in Section 1.9.1, Understanding Outbound Email. Click Download to access the mail file.

  • Novell FAMT: This is the Novell FAMT service that allows communication between Filr and the external OES, Windows, or NetWare file system. Click Download to access the famtd.log file.

  • MySQL: This is the MySQL service that is running on the appliance. Click Download to access the mysqld.log file.

    The MySQL service runs on the Filr appliance in a small deployment, and on the MySQL appliance in a large deployment.

Lucene Search Index Appliance

  • SSH: This is the SSH service that is running on the appliance.

  • Jetty: This is the Jetty service that is running on the appliance. Click Download to access the jetty.stderrout.out file.

  • Search: Click Download to access the indexserver.log file

  • Memcached: Click Download to access the jetty.stderrout.out file.

    In Filr 1.1 and later, Memcached runs on the Lucene search index appliance. When updating a pre-1.1 Filr appliance to Filr 1.1 or later, move Memcached from the Filr appliance to the Lucene search index appliance, as described in Moving the Memcached Service to the Search Index Appliance in the Novell Filr 1.2 Installation and Configuration Guide.

MySQL Database Appliance

  • SSH: This is the SSH service that is running on the appliance.

  • Jetty: This is the Jetty service that is running on the appliance. Click Download to access the jetty.stderrout.out file.

  • MySQL: This is the MySQL service that is running on the appliance. Click Download to access the mysqld.log file.

This section describes the kinds of actions you can perform in regards to these services.

  1. Log in to the Novell appliance at https://server_url:9443, then click the Appliance Configuration icon.

  2. Click System Services.

  3. You can perform various actions for system services:

2.7.1 Starting, Stopping, or Restarting System Services

You might want to start, stop, or restart a service. For example, you can start SSH so that you can remote into the appliance without using a VMware client.

  1. Select the service that you want to start, stop, or restart.

  2. Click Action, then click Start, Stop, or Restart.

  3. Click Close to exit System Services.

2.7.2 Making System Services Automatic or Manual

  1. Select the service that you want to make automatic or manual.

  2. Click Action, then click Set as Automatic, or Set as Manual.

2.7.3 Downloading Log Files for System Services

  1. In the Log Files column of the table, click the download link for the service for which you want to view log files.

    The following files are available for each service:

    SSH: N/A

    Novell Filr: catalina.out, appserver.log (Filr appliance)

    The catalina.out file reports all timestamps in UTC/GMT.

    Jetty: jetty.stderrout.log (Filr, Search, and MySQL database appliances)

    Postfix: mail (Filr appliance)

    Novell FAMT: famtd.log (Filr appliance)

    Search: indexserver.log (Search appliance)

    MySQL: mysqld.log (MySQL database appliance)

    Memcached: jetty.stderrout.out (Search appliance)

  2. Click Close to exit System Services.