mon_fsstatd systemd service syntax

6.10 z/VM guest

If you run the mon_fsstatd daemon as a systemd service unit, you configure the daemon through specifications in a configuration file.

Where:

start: starts monitoring of guest file system size, using the configuration in /etc/sysconfig/mon_fsstatd.
stop: stops monitoring of guest file system size.
status: shows current status of guest file system size monitoring.
restart: stops and restarts monitoring.
reload: reloads the configuration. Use reload to re-read the configuration file when it was changed.
enable: starts the service automatically at boot time.
disable: disables automatic start of the service at boot time.

Configuration file keywords

FSSTAT_INTERVAL="<n>": specifies the wanted sampling interval in seconds.

Examples of systemd service unit use

This example configuration file for mon_fsstatd (/etc/sysconfig/mon_fsstatd) sets the sampling interval to 30 seconds:

FSSTAT_INTERVAL="30"

Examples of mon_fsstatd use:

To start guest file system size monitoring:
```
# systemctl start mon_fsstatd
```

To display the status:

# systemctl status mon_fsstatd
| mon_fsstatd.service - Monitor z/VM guest file system size
...
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-02-21 14:52:11 CET; 4s ago

To stop guest file system size monitoring:
```
# systemctl stop mon_fsstatd
```

To display the status again and check that monitoring is now stopped:

# systemctl status mon_fsstatd
| mon_fsstatd.service - Monitor z/VM guest file system size
...
   Active: inactive (dead)
...

To restart the daemon and re-read the configuration file:
```
# systemctl restart mon_fsstatd 
```