Setting up Sonarqube 7.9.3 LTS as a service on RHEL 7.7

[danhersh]

I need to setup Sonarqube 7.9.3 LTS as a service on RHEL 7.7
I read https://docs.sonarqube.org/7.9/setup/operate-server/ and ExecStart is calling the java jar directly, with some java options inline. Would it not be proper to call sonar.sh so that properties in conf directories could be read/honored, or are they still used in this scenario?
Here similar doubts and alternatives are expressed, but I am not sure now what is the right way? Do I even need ExecStop for example? Which is the definite guide?

Working Systemd service script

SonarQube 7.7 Community edition, Postgresql 10 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 The systemd script described on Operating the Server | SonarQube Docs does not take advantage of the Java options defined in the sonar.properties file nor does it take advantage of the start and stop start the server. And when used with sonar.sh does not work. Here is one that works: [Unit] Description=SonarQube service After=network.target network-online.target Wants=network-online.target [Service] #Type=simple …

Running SonarQube as a Service on Linux Documentation (CentOS 7)

Hello, It works But I had to add one more line: LimitNOFILE=65536 The final file content: [Unit] Description=SonarQube service After=syslog.target network.target [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/opt/sonar/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start ExecStop=/opt/sonar/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh stop User=sonar Group=sonar Restart=always LimitNOFILE=65536 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Thanks in advance for your help.
Dan

[Wouter_Admiraal]

Hi @danhersh,

The sonar.properties configuration is still read as usual. sonar.sh additionally bootstraps a wrapper, which loads the wrapper.conf. This has an impact running it as a service, but is mostly useful for certain OS’s or init-style process runners.

I personally don’t have much experience with RHEL or SystemD, but I imagine that both options (java -jar and sonar.sh) would work just fine.

In any case, I’d be curious to know how it goes. Let me know if you run into any issues.