Ensure that:

  • You are signed on to your system as a root user.
  • The <JAVA_HOME>JAVA_HOME path points to the Java Development Kit (JDK) software on your system. For example, /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.5.10-0.e17_7.x86_64. To verify this information, run the echo $JAVA_HOME command.
  • The PINGCENTRAL_HOME path points to the folder extracted from the .zip archive in your installation directory. Ensure that this path doesn't reside within a user's home folder.
  1. Copy the pingcentral file from <PINGCENTRAL_HOME>/sbin/linux/pingcentral to /etc/init.d.
  2. Create a new user to run PingCentral. You might want to create a new user account for each service you run as a way of keeping your services separate, or associate the account with a running process.
  3. Create a new pingcentral folder in /var/run/pingcentral and ensure that the user who will run the service has read and write permissions to the folder.
  4. Access the pingcentral file in the /etc/init.d folder and set values for the following variables at the beginning of the script:
    • export <JAVA-HOME>: Specify the name and location of the Java installation folder.
    • export <PINGCENTRAL_HOME>: Specify the name and location of the PingCentral installation folder.
    • (Optional): export USER: Specify the name of the user who will run the service, if applicable.
  5. Register the service by running the chkconfig --add pingcentral command from the /etc/init.d folder.
  6. Make the service script executable by running the chmod +x pingcentral command.

    After registering the service, you can control it by running the pingcentral command from the /etc/init.d folder with the following options:

    • start: Starts the PingCentral service.
    • stop: Stops the PingCentral service.
    • restart: Restarts the PingCentral service.
    • status: Displays the status of the PingCentral service and the service process ID.