Installing the Edge Flow Manager server

Learn how to install the Edge Flow Manager server.

  1. Move the efm-version-bin.tar.gz tarball to the desired host and installation directory.

    For download locations, see Edge Flow Manager download locations.

  2. Extract the Edge Flow Manager tarball in the desired installation directory:
    tar -xzf efm-version-bin.tar.gz

Installing Edge Flow Manager as an operating system service

The Edge Flow Manager 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 Edge Flow Manager server from the efm.sh executable included in the Edge Flow Manager bin directory.

You can start the application as a service by using either init.d or systemd.

Install Edge Flow Manager as an init.d service

To install Edge Flow Manager 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 Edge Flow Manager to start automatically on system boot, use update-rc.d. See man update-rc.d for information on using this utility.

Install Edge Flow Manager 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 Edge Flow Manager using systemd as a service configuration.

To install Edge Flow Manager 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