Starting Oracle Unified Directory on system boot is essential for production environment. Unfortunately OUD just provides a script to create the init.d script. But newer system in general use systemd initialise and startup. Nevertheless, creating a custom unit file for OUD is simple and straightforward. First, let’s create a regular init.d script with the create-rc-script from oud. The created custom script can be used as template for the systemd unit file.

create-rc-script does allow a couple of parameter to specify the script name, OS user for OUD and the JAVA_HOME. The following example of create-rc-script does show how to create a regular start script for OUD instance oud_ad_proxy.

export OUD_HOME=/u00/app/oracle/instances/oud_ad_proxy
export JAVA_HOME=/u00/app/oracle/product/jdk1.7.0_141

cd $OUD_HOME/OUD/bin
create-rc-script -f oud_ad_proxy.sh -u oracle -j $JAVA_HOME

This does create the following bornshell script for init.d.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
# 
#
# chkconfig: 345 90 30
# description: Oracle Unified Directory startup script
#


# Set the path to the Oracle Unified Directory instance to manage
INSTALL_ROOT="/u00/app/oracle/instances/oud_ad_proxy/OUD"
export INSTALL_ROOT

# Specify the path to the Java installation to use
OPENDS_JAVA_HOME="/u00/app/oracle/product/jdk1.7.0_141"
export OPENDS_JAVA_HOME

# Determine what action should be performed on the server
case "${1}" in
start)
  /bin/su - oracle -- "${INSTALL_ROOT}/bin/start-ds" --quiet
  exit ${?}
  ;;
stop)
  /bin/su - oracle -- "${INSTALL_ROOT}/bin/stop-ds" --quiet
  exit ${?}
  ;;
restart)
  /bin/su - oracle -- "${INSTALL_ROOT}/bin/stop-ds" --restart --quiet
  exit ${?}
  ;;
*)
  echo "Usage:  $0 { start | stop | restart }"
  exit 1
  ;;
esac

The same start / stop commands can now be used in the unit file. So let’s create a new custom unit file in /etc/systemd/system. The unit file is named according the old instance.

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/oud_ad_proxy.service

Add the following content to the new unit file.

[Unit]
Description=OUD AD Proxy Instance oud_ad_proxy
Wants=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=oracle
Group=osdba
Environment=OPENDS_JAVA_HOME="/u00/app/oracle/product/jdk1.7.0_141"
ExecStart=/u00/app/oracle/instances/oud_ad_proxy/OUD/bin/start-ds --quiet
ExecStop=/u00/app/oracle/instances/oud_ad_proxy/OUD/bin/stop-ds --quiet
ExecReload=/u00/app/oracle/instances/oud_ad_proxy/OUD/bin/stop-ds --restart --quiet
StandardOutput=syslog

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

As soon as we have the new unit file we have to enable the service.

sudo systemctl enable oud_ad_proxy.service

Start the OUD instance using systemctl.

sudo systemctl start oud_ad_proxy.service

Stop the OUD instance using systemctl.

sudo systemctl stop oud_ad_proxy.service

Display the status of the OUD service.

sudo systemctl status oud_ad_proxy.service

 oud_ad_proxy.service - OUD AD Proxy Instance oud_ad_proxy
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/oud_ad_proxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-05-16 22:41:09 CEST; 28s ago
  Process: 18300 ExecStop=/u00/app/oracle/instances/oud_ad_proxy/OUD/bin/stop-ds --quiet (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 18397 ExecStart=/u00/app/oracle/instances/oud_ad_proxy/OUD/bin/start-ds --quiet (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 18477 (java)
   CGroup: /system.slice/oud_ad_proxy.service
           └─18477 /u00/app/oracle/product/jdk1.7.0_141/jre/bin/java -server -Dorg.opends.server.scriptName=start-ds org.opends.server.core.DirectoryServer --configClass org.opends.server.extensions.ConfigFileHandler -...

May 16 22:41:01 euterpe systemd[1]: Starting OUD AD Proxy Instance oud_ad_proxy...
May 16 22:41:09 euterpe systemd[1]: Started OUD AD Proxy Instance oud_ad_proxy.

Some references and links to MOS Notes:

• OUD11g: How to Start OUD Servers on Boot [2019451.1]
• Oracle® Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle Unified Directory 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3) create-rc-script
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 System Administrator’s Guide Creating and Modifying systemd Unit Files
• Understanding Systemd Units and Unit Files
• Wikipedia systemd