The Provisioner PXE Server is comprised of proprietary components and services as well as open source services provided by the underlying operating system and other projects.

 

These open source services include (among others): dhcpd, NFS mountd, NFS daemon, NFS quotas, NFS services, postgresql service and Avahi daemon.

 

Cisco provides a single service group enabler called linmin-services.sh with 4 options: start, stop, restart and status.

 

The Provisioner PXE Server will start every time the system on which it runs is powered on. At any time, you can stop, start, restart or check the status of the Provisioner PXE Server by following the instructions below:

 

Execute as root user:

To start all services required to run the Provisioner PXE Server (including at system boot time):

/usr/local/linmin/linmin-services.sh start

 

Note that the script can also be executed by:

cd /usr/local/linmin

./linmin-services.sh start

 

To stop all services required to run the Provisioner PXE Server:

/usr/local/linmin/linmin-services.sh stop

 

To restart (shut down then start) all services required to run the Provisioner PXE Server:

/usr/local/linmin/linmin-services.sh restart

 

To check the status of all services required to run the Provisioner PXE Server:

/usr/local/linmin/linmin-services.sh status

The script may be invoked at any time a status check is desired. If all services are running, the following message will appear:

LinMin Bare Metal server status is OK

 

Error results will be displayed on the console and logged to /usr/local/linmin/status/current_status_check and to a status_ERRORs. {scriptTimeStamp}.

Useful commands to review the files include:

ll /usr/local/linmin/status/

less /usr/local/linmin/status/current_status_check