README.md

Running Sensible as a standalone systemd service on Linux servers

Currently tested OSes

• Ubuntu 18.x --> 20.x
• Debian 10.x --> 11.x

Steps

1. Preparation

You need download and unpack/build Sensible binary program

2. Create user and basic structure of files

mv sensible /usr/local/bin/sensible
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/sensible
useradd sensible
mkdir /var/log/sensible
chown sensible /var/log/sensible
mkdir -p /etc/sensible/scripts

3. Create file /etc/sensible/settings.yaml

You can use "sensible -r" to create the needed folders and the example settings.yaml file.

This will create /etc/sensible, /etc/sensible/scripts and /etc/sensible/settings.yaml

4. Give access to the created files to Sensible

chown -R sensible /etc/sensible

5. Add your scripts

cp <your-script-name-or-folder> /etc/sensible/scripts/
chown -R sensible /etc/sensible/scripts

6. Create and start service

create file /lib/systemd/system/sensible.service with contents

[Unit]
Description=Sensible monitoring service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/sensible
User=sensible
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Activate service

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable sensible.service
systemctl start sensible.service

Check status of service

systemctl status sensible.service