View and Manage Services
Note:
Cockpit usessystemd
to manage host service processes.
What Do You Need?
- The Cockpit web console must be installed and accessible.
For details, see these topics: Install and Enable Cockpit and Log in to the Cockpit Web Console.
- Administrator privileges.
Steps
- In the Cockpit navigation pane, click Services.
The Services page appears.
- In the Services page, click a
systemd
service type tab of interest. For example, Service, Targets, Sockets, Timer, and PathA list of service processes appear in a table format as follows:Column Displays 1 Name of service process. 2 Description of service process. 3 Status of service process. 4 Operating state of service process. - In the selected service type tab page, perform any of the following operations:
Filter page output Filter the page output by: - User or system processes – Click System or User (at top right side of page).
- Process name or description – In the text box, enter a process name or process description of interest.
- Active process state or file process state – Select the state of interest from the Active State drop-down list or File State drop-down list.
Change the operating state Perform these steps: - In the first column of the table, select a service name of interest.
The service-name page appears.
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In server-process-name page, perform the applicable action(s):
- To activate or deactivate the process, turn on or off the Account Service toggle switch.
- To start, stop, or reload the process, click the Account Service Additional Actions [⋮] menu.
View system logs Perform these steps: - In the first column of the table, select the service name of interest.
The service-name page appears.
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In service-name page, navigate to the Service Logs panel and then click View all logs.
Create Timer (Timer tab only) Perform these steps in the Timer tab:
- Click Create timer at the upper right top of the
page.
A Create timer dialog appears.
- In the Create timer dialog, configure the
required properties.
For more details about creating
systemd
timers, see Work with Systemd Timer Units in Use systemd on Oracle Linux.