Sometimes it’s useful to run ONOS as a service, particularly in production environments. This is where things get more complicated and specialized, depending on the operating system you’re running.
Typically when ONOS runs as a service, the OS will start it automatically as part of the boot process. On systemd
and upstart
-based systems, it should also automatically be restarted if it crashes. Once the service configuration files have been installed, you can typically start, stop, and check the status of ONOS using the service
command.
Install the service files
sudo cp /opt/onos/init/onos.initd /etc/init.d/onos
sudo update-rc.d onos defaults
sudo cp /opt/onos/init/onos.conf /etc/init/onos.conf
sudo cp /opt/onos/init/onos.service /etc/systemd/system/ sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl enable onos
Configure ONOS Options
The ONOS services read configuration options from /opt/onos/config
. If you have created an ONOS user (e.g. sdn
), you should set ONOS_USER
in /opt/onos/config
to the user you wish ONOS to run as
You can also specify ONOS_APPS
as a default set of applications to activate.
ONOS_USER=sdn # Optional: add any apps here that you wish to activate by default ONOS_APPS=
Note that ONOS_APPS
is an optional way of specifying default apps to activate on a node, but you can also activate apps dynamically across the entire ONOS cluster using the ONOS CLI.
Start, stop, or check the status of the ONOS service
sudo service onos {start|stop|status}