Daemons

The Meridian service is composed of several daemon "sub-services" that each perform a specific set of tasks. You can enable and disable them via ${OPENNMS_HOME}/etc/service-configuration.xml.

See Daemon Configuration Files section for details on sending daemon reload commands.

List of daemons

Name Description Container Environment variable with defaults

Ackd

The acknowledge daemon is responsible for alarm acknowledgement.

CORE_SERVICE_ACKD_ENABLED=true

Actiond

Generates Java actions based on received events.

CORE_SERVICE_ACTIOND_ENABLED=true

Alarmd

Handles alarm workflows.

CORE_SERVICE_ALARMD_ENABLED=true

AsteriskGateway

Communicates with an Asterisk server for VOIP notification.

CORE_SERVICE_ASTERISKGATEWAY_ENABLED=false

Bsmd

Processes updates of Business Service Monitoring availability.

CORE_SERVICE_BSMD_ENABLED=true

Collectd

Collects data from nodes to persist performance metrics over time.

CORE_SERVICE_COLLECTD_ENABLED=true

Correlator

Associates multiple related events.

CORE_SERVICE_CORRELATOR_ENABLED=false

Discovery

Provides network discovery functions to scan (either one time only or regularly) for nodes that should be added into the Meridian database.

CORE_SERVICE_DISCOVERY_ENABLED=true

Enlinkd

Discovers connections between nodes using data generated by various link discovery protocols.

CORE_SERVICE_ENLINKD_ENABLED=true

EventTranslator

The event translator can transform and enhance the data from Meridian events that other daemons generate.

CORE_SERVICE_EVENTTRANSLATOR_ENABLED=true

Eventd

Receives and writes event information.

CORE_SERVICE_EVENTD_ENABLED=true

JettyServer

The Jetty server provides the Meridian web user interface.

CORE_SERVICE_JETTYSERVER_ENABLED=true

Karaf

The Karaf runtime is the framework that maintains all the other daemons running within the Meridian system.

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KarafStartupMonitor

Used in startup script to detect if Karaf started properly.

CORE_SERVICE_KARAFSTARTUPMONITOR_ENABLED=true

Notifd

Sends notifications to other systems based on event UEIs.

CORE_SERVICE_NOTIFD_ENABLED=true

PassiveStatusd

The Passive Status Keeper provides a mechanism to generate service outages based on events. This can be helpful for devices that cannot be directly polled to check service state.

CORE_SERVICE_PASSIVESTATUSD_ENABLED=true

PerspectivePoller

Handles Application Perspective Monitoring availability calculations.

CORE_SERVICE_PERSPECTIVEPOLLER_ENABLED=true

Pollerd

Responsible for service availability monitoring.

CORE_SERVICE_POLLERD_ENABLED=true

Provisiond

Handles the node import and service detection processes.

CORE_SERVICE_PROVISIOND_ENABLED=true

Queued

Handles scheduling of tasks to run in the future.

CORE_SERVICE_QUEUED_ENABLED=true

Reportd

Generates and schedules reports.

CORE_SERVICE_REPORTD_ENABLED=true

Rtcd

Handles uptime percentage calculations.

CORE_SERVICE_RTCD_ENABLED=true

Scriptd

Lets you configure Bean Shell script to run in response to events.

CORE_SERVICE_SCRIPTD_ENABLED=true

SnmpPoller

Checks SNMP interface admin status. It is separate from pollerd’s SnmpMonitor.

CORE_SERVICE_SNMPPOLLER_ENABLED=false

Statsd

Generates statistical reports from node data.

CORE_SERVICE_STATSD_ENABLED=true

Syslogd

Allows retrieval and parsing of syslog messages to generate events.

CORE_SERVICE_SYSLOGD_ENABLED=false

Telemetryd

Collects sensor data sent from nodes to Meridian.

CORE_SERVICE_TELEMETRYD_ENABLED=true

Ticketer

Enables Meridian to create trouble tickets in external systems.

CORE_SERVICE_TICKETER_ENABLED=true

Tl1d

Enables reception of TL1 autonomous messages.

CORE_SERVICE_TL1D_ENABLED=false

Trapd

Provides an SNMP server that accepts SNMP traps that can be converted to events.

CORE_SERVICE_TRAPD_ENABLED=true

Vacuumd

Runs daily cleanup tasks for the PostgreSQL database.

CORE_SERVICE_VACUUMD_ENABLED=true