A.1 Managing the Sentinel Services

There is a command line utility included with Sentinel is useful for managing and configuring many lower level functions of the system. The utility is located in /usr/sbin/rcsentinel.

The utility has the following options to manage the Sentinel services:

rcsentinel start: Starts the Sentinel service.

rcsentinel stop: Stops the Sentinel service.

rcsentinel status: Displays the status of the Sentinel service.

rcsentinel restart: Restarts the Sentinel service.

rcsentinel try-restart: Restarts the Sentinel service if the Sentinel service is running.

rcsentinel force-reload: Forces the Sentinel service to reload the Sentinel configuration.

rcsentinel startdb: Starts the PostgreSQL database.

rcsentinel stopdb: Stops the PostgreSQL database.

rcsentinel force_stopdb: Forces the PostgreSQL databse to stop.

rcsentinel startSIdb: Starts the Security Intelligence database.

rcsentinel stopSIdb: Stops the Security Intelligence database.

rcesentinel version: Displays the version of the Sentinel service.

rcsentinel -p, --priorty=<integer>: Specifies the process priority.

rcsentinel -h, --help: Displays all options for the rcsentinel utility.

rcsentinel -l, --log-flie=FILE: Sends log messages to a file.

rcsentinel -q, --quiet: Displays fewer messages.

rcsentinel -v, --verbose: Displays more messages.