Thank you, Aleksey. I will try this and provide an update. The reason why I would like to create such a configuration change is so that I can make sure that servers that are not being monitored via SNMP are at least configured to be monitored so that the next SNMP discovery will pick up the servers that do not have its SNMP configured and started. What I didn't include in my previous email is that I perform a copy of snmpd.conf into servers that may not have it. This is the case for starting the process as well as making sure that it will start again when the server is rebooted.
In the case of the restart, I would like the process to restart when snmpd.conf changes. jerome -----Original Message----- From: Aleksey Tsalolikhin [mailto:atsaloli.t...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:08 PM To: Jerome Yanga Cc: help-cfengine@cfengine.org Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: how to start a service and make sure it runs after a reboot On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jerome Yanga <jya...@esri.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to replicate the following commands in a promise. I have tried > the restart_class but I cannot seem to get it working the way I have > described below. > > service snmpd start/restart > chkconfig snmpd on > > I want it to restart snmpd if it is already running and start it if it is > stopped. Why, please? (I want to understand the use case.) Ok, so you want to: Check if the process is running, and based on that set a class PROCESS_RUNNING if PROCESS_RUNNING, then restart it if not PROCESS_RUNNING, then start it Right? Try this on for size (tested with sendmail daemon, it does work): bundle agent example { processes: ".*" process_count => anyprocs, process_select => proc_finder; commands: process_running:: "/bin/echo restart command"; process_not_running:: "/bin/echo start command"; } ######################################################## body process_select proc_finder { command => "sendmail: .*"; # (Anchored) regular expression matching the command/cmd field of a process process_result => "command"; } ######################################################## body process_count anyprocs { match_range => "0,0"; # Integer range for acceptable number of matches for this process out_of_range_define => { "process_running" }; # List of classes to define if the matches are out of range in_range_define => { "process_not_running" }; # List of classes to define if the matches are in range. } _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
