Selectively Disable Zenoss Daemons

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Overview

Tip from Chet Luther.

Procedure

This should all be done as the “zenoss” user.

• 1. Create the following blank file to tell Zenoss you’re controlling the daemon list:

touch $ZENHOME/etc/DAEMONS_TXT_ONLY

• 2. Specify the daemons that you do want started in the daemons.txt file

cat <$ZENHOME/etc/daemons.txt
zeoctl
zopectl
zenhub
zenping
zensyslog
zenstatus
zenactions
zentrap
zenmodeler
zenperfsnmp
zencommand
zenprocess
EOF

• 3. Stop the unwanted daemons

zenwin stop
zeneventlog stop
zenjmx stop

• 4. Clear the heartbeats so you don’t get heartbeat failure events

mysql -uzenoss -pzenoss events -e "delete from heartbeat where component in ('zenwin', 'zeneventlog', 'zenjmx')"

5) Check to see that the list of daemons is the one you want

zenoss status