Service Provider¶

Overview

OpenLMI-Service is CIM provider for managing Linux system services (using the systemd D-Bus interface).

Clients

The API can be accessed by any WBEM-capable client. OpenLMI already provides:

• Python module lmi.scripts.service, part of OpenLMI scripts.
• Command line tool: LMI metacommand, with ‘service’ subcommand.

Features

• Enumerate system services and get their status.
• Start/stop/restart/... a service and enable/disable a service.
• Event based monitoring of service status (emit indication event upon service property change).

Examples

For examples how to use OpenLMI-Service provider remotely from LMIShell, see the usage.

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