Opsview - Turn off an Opsview collector safely

It is important to stop all the Opsview components before turning an Opsview host off. Once the components are stopped, it should be safe to turn the host off normally.

Prerequisites

• None

Process

1. Stop the Opsview components using opsview-monit:

/opt/opsview/watchdog/bin/opsview-monit stop all

Wait for all the components to stop. All components should be Not monitored when you check the opsview-monit summary:

watch /opt/opsview/watchdog/bin/opsview-monit summary -B
- CTRL+C to interrupt the command 

Depending on the speed of your system, stopping all the components may take a few minutes.

2. Turn the host off as you would normally, e.g.

systemctl shutdown