Installing EFM server
Learn how to install the Edge Flow Manager (EFM) server.
Installing EFM as an operating system service
The Edge Flow Manager (EFM) executable supports installation as a service on most Linux
distributions. This is an optional installation step that is not required if you prefer to start
the EFM server from the efm.sh
executable included in the EFM bin
directory.
You can start the application as a service by using either init.d
or
systemd
.
Install EFM as an init.d service
To install EFM as an
init.d
service, symlink bin/efm.sh
to
init.d
.$ sudo ln -s /path/to/efm/bin/efm.sh /etc/init.d/efm
Once installed, you can start and stop the service as you would other OS services. For
example:
$ service efm start
To configure EFM to start automatically on system boot, use
update-rc.d
. See
man update-rc.d
for information on using this utility.Install EFM as a systemd service
Most modern Linux distributions now use systemd
as the successor to
init.d
(System V). In many cases you can continue to use
init.d
, but it is also possible to launch EFM using
systemd
as a service configuration.
To install EFM as a
systemd
service, create a file named
efm.service
in the /etc/systemd/system
directory. For
example:[Unit]
Description=efm
After=syslog.target
[Service]
User=efm
ExecStart=/path/to/efm/bin/efm.sh
SuccessExitStatus=143
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target