I hope you don't mind, but I snarfed this for a Wiki page, as it seems
like it will come up a bunch:
http://www.zenoss.com/community/wiki/tips-and-tricks/RunningOnlySomeDaemons
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James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University
Chet Luther wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2008, at 11:18 PM, dksprout wrote:
>> I've upgraded my Zenoss installation from 2.1.2 to 2.2.0, then to
>> 2.3.0 (running on CentOS 5) and now I'm working my way through the
>> last of the smaller tasks of my project.
>>
>> I've been looking for a way to disable the zenjmx and zenwin daemons
>> while keeping the zenpacks installed. Basically, I'd like to disable
>> them from starting when Zenoss starts. We may need these in the
>> future, but don't need them running right now.
>>
>> I thought I read something yesterday that told how to do this, but
>> after a bunch of searching and reading today I can't seem to find it.
>>
>> Is it possible (or even desirable) to do this?
>
> 2.3 has a new way to go about this selective enabling/disabling of
> daemons. Here's how you use it. This should all be done as the zenoss
> user.
>
> # Create the following blank file to tell Zenoss you're controlling
> the daemon list
> touch $ZENHOME/etc/DAEMONS_TXT_ONLY
>
> # Specify the daemons that you do want started in the daemons.txt file
> cat <<EOF>$ZENHOME/etc/daemons.txt
> zeoctl
> zopectl
> zenhub
> zenping
> zensyslog
> zenstatus
> zenactions
> zentrap
> zenmodeler
> zenperfsnmp
> zencommand
> zenprocess
> EOF
>
> # Stop the unwanted daemons
> zenwin stop
> zeneventlog stop
> zenjmx stop
>
> # 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')"
>
> # Check to see that the list of daemons is the one you want
> zenoss status
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