System Administration & Services Management¶

Environment variables¶

Instances come with preset environment variables, that you can list using:

env | grep 'APP'

# Example:
# APP_ENV=prod
# APP_INDEX_HOSTS=localhost:9200
# APP_DATABASE_PASSWORD=UjNRiyc9YgHcvVsACePXKofn
# APP_DATABASE_HOST=localhost
# APP_SECRET=6d40b1ed-6ce0-6ca7-f1c9-256c2241edc9

PIM Location¶

/home/akeneo/pim

Database access¶

Connect to the database by using mysql, with no need to provide credentials. They are read from ~/.my.cnf.

$ mysql

Akeneo database dump¶

In order to dump the akeneo database, one could run the command:

$ mysqldump akeneo_pim

Warning

Please add the option --no-tablespaces to the mysqldump command if you noticed such an error

mysqldump: Error: 'Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS privilege(s) for this operation' when trying to dump tablespaces

Privilege escalation¶

Note

akeneo is an unprivileged user, but you can use the aliases below to perform system operations.

Alias	Argument	Action
`partners_mysql`	`status\|start\|restart`	Show status or start/restart mysql daemon
`partners_elasticsearch`	`status\|start\|restart`	Show status or start/restart elasticsearch daemon
`partners_php8.0-fpm`	`status\|start\|restart`	Show status or start/restart php-fpm daemon (Command name can vary depending on your version of PHP)
`partners_clear_cache`		Clear PIM cache properly. Stops php-fpm and job consumers, deletes PIM cache folder, warms up PIM cache and restarts php-fpm and job consumers
`partners_systemctl <job>`	`status\|start\|stop\|restart\|enable\|disable`	Show status, start/stop/restart or enable/disable job consumers. Refer to this page for more details

Third-party Software Installation¶

Third-party packages can’t be installed, with the exceptions of PHP packages.

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