System Administration & Services Management¶

Environment variables¶

Instances come with preset environment variables, that you can list using:

env | grep 'APP'

# Example:
# APP_ENV=prod
# APP_INDEX_HOSTS=localhost:9200
# APP_DATABASE_PASSWORD=UjNRiyc9YgHcvVsACePXKofn
# APP_DATABASE_HOST=localhost
# APP_SECRET=6d40b1ed-6ce0-6ca7-f1c9-256c2241edc9

PIM Location¶

/home/akeneo/pim

Database access¶

Connect to the database by using mysql, with no need to provide credentials. They are read from ~/.my.cnf.

$ mysql
$ mysqldump akeneo_pim # to dump the content of the database

Privilege escalation¶

Note

akeneo is an unprivileged user, but you can use the aliases below to perform system operations.

Alias	Argument	Action
`partners_mysql`	`status\|start\|restart`	Show status or start/restart mysql daemon
`partners_elasticsearch`	`status\|start\|restart`	Show status or start/restart elasticsearch daemon
`partners_php7.4-fpm`	`status\|start\|restart`	Show status or start/restart php-fpm daemon (Command name can vary depending on your version of PHP)
`partners_clear_cache`		Clear PIM cache properly. Stops php-fpm and job consumers, deletes PIM cache folder, warms up PIM cache and restarts php-fpm and job consumers
`partners_systemctl <job>`	`status\|start\|stop\|restart\|enable\|disable`	Show status, start/stop/restart or enable/disable job consumers. Refer to this page for more details

Third-party Software Installation¶

Third-party packages can’t be installed, with the exceptions of PHP packages.

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