Installing as a Service

Flow Production Tracking Jira Bridge can be run as a service on MacOS/Linux and Windows.

MacOS and Linux

On MacOS and Linux, the service.py script can be used with systemd. It accepts parameters from the command-line and responds to the standard commands:

usage: service.py [-h] [--pid_file PID_FILE] [--log_file LOG_FILE]
              [--port PORT] --settings SETTINGS
              {start,stop,restart,status}

Parameters

-h: Display the usage help.
–pid_file: Full path to the pid file used by the service. Defaults to /tmp/sg_jira.pid.
–log_file: An optional log file to use for the daemon output. By default the daemon uses a syslog handler.
–port: The port number for the web app to listen on. Defaults to 9090.
–settings: (required) Full path to settings file for the web app.

Windows

The win_service.py script can be installed to allow the Service Manager to control Flow Production Tracking Jira Bridge.

Environment Variables

Environment variables are used to specify the settings and port parameters.

SGJIRA_SETTINGS_FILE: Full path to settings file for the web app. If not provided, the app will look for a settings.py file in the root of the Flow Production Tracking Jira Bridge directory (where it exists in the default structure).
SGJIRA_PORT_NUMBER: The port number for the web app to listen on. Defaults to 9090.

Installing the Service

The Windows service requires the Python for Win32 (pywin32) extensions.

Note

If installing pywin32 with pip install pywin32, the following must be run after the installation in order to allow it to manage services:

python Scripts/pywin32_postinstall.py -install

See https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32#installing-via-pip for more info.

Install the service from an elevanted command prompt with:

python win_service.py install

Then you can control Flow Production Tracking Jira Bridge via the Service Manager app or using:

python win_service.py start|stop|restart

Logging

Log messages from the Windows Service are logged to the Event Viewer.