Processes¶

Akeneo PIM uses daemons to execute jobs (i.e: imports, exports, etc.) from a queue.

Job daemons are managed by systemd which allows multiple operations such as:

• start/stop/restart a daemon,

• enable/disable a daemon,

• check the status/see logs of a daemon.

To see how and which commands are available, please refer to Privilege escalation

Configuration¶

Configurations of daemons are stored under /home/akeneo/.systemd/pim_job_consumer. The name of the file is the daemon identifier. Make it simple and use only integer numbers.

As of PIM 3.1, each daemon can be dedicated to run certain job(s), hence making sure the jobs will be executed in a timely manner, and that their execution will not interfere with other business operations.

Daemons files can be configured following this documentation.

Once their configuration files are created, you can manipulate these daemons through our “partners_systemctl” alias as you would do with systemctl.

Examples¶

• Create a new daemon which handles all type of jobs:

  1# Create a file for the new daemon and keep it empty to handle all jobs
  2touch /home/akeneo/.systemd/pim_job_consumer/3.conf
  3
  4# Start the consumer with its name (configuration filename without extension)
  5partners_systemctl pim_job_consumer@3 start
  6
  7# Enable the consumer to be started automatically at instance boot up
  8partners_systemctl pim_job_consumer@3 enable
  

• Create a new daemon which handles specific jobs:

   1# Create a file with specific jobs
   2echo -e "data_maintenance_job\nimport_export_job" > /home/akeneo/.systemd/pim_job_consumer/4.conf
   3
   4cat /home/akeneo/.systemd/pim_job_consumer/4.conf
   5data_maintenance_job
   6import_export_job
   7
   8# Start the consumer with its name (configuration filename without extension)
   9partners_systemctl pim_job_consumer@4 start
  10
  11# Enable the consumer to be started automatically at instance boot up
  12partners_systemctl pim_job_consumer@4 enable
  

• Remove an existing daemon (not possible on Akeneo default ones):

  1# Stop the consumer with its name (configuration filename without extension)
  2partners_systemctl pim_job_consumer@7 stop
  3
  4# Disable the consumer not to be started automatically at instance boot up
  5partners_systemctl pim_job_consumer@7 disable
  6
  7# Delete its configuration file
  8rm /home/akeneo/.systemd/pim_job_consumer/7.conf
  

• Remove default PIM webhook consumer:

  1# Stop the consumer with its name (configuration filename without extension)
  2partners_systemctl pim_webhook_consumer stop
  3
  4# Disable the consumer not to be started automatically at instance boot up
  5partners_systemctl pim_webhook_consumer disable