5.7.2 Adding an OpenSearch Dashboards Service

The script to add or delete the service for OpenSearch Dashboards uses the following arguments:

• -h or --help

  Show the help message and exit

• --add

  A OpenSearch Dashboards service will be added.

• --delete

  The OpenSearch Dashboards service will be removed.

• --install_base_dir BASE_DIR

  Enter the base directory (BASE_DIR) where you installed the OSK DPK.

To add OpenSearch Dashboards as a service:

1. Open a terminal window, running as root.

2. Change directory to OSK_INSTALL/setup:

   cd OSK_INSTALL/setup

3. Run this command to add the service:

   ./psft-osd-service.sh --add --install_base_dir BASE_DIR
                  

4. Use this command to verify that the service was added:.

   The output of the command must show a running OpenSearch Dashboards process.

   ps -ef | grep node

5. Use this command to verify that the process is running.

   systemctl status opensearch-dashboards

   This should give an output with the status “active (running),” as shown in bold font in this sample:

   opensearch-dashboards.service - OpenSearch-Dashboards
      Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/opensearch-dashboards.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
      Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-09-01 23:05:38 PDT; 9s ago
   Main PID: 67149 (node)
       Tasks: 11
      Memory: 111.7M
      CGroup: /system.slice/openSearch-dashboards.service