Controlling Services and Daemons
Class goal
The goal of this class is to control and monitor network services and system daemons using systemd tools.

Objectives

After completing this class you should be able to:

Describe the role of systemd in a Linux system.
List system daemons and network services started by systemd and socket units.
Control system daemons and network services using systemctl.
Class content:

Systemd role explanation.
Important features offered by systemd.
Linux system initialization.
Identifying automatically started system processes.
Systemd tools.
Systemctl and systemd units.
Service states.
Systemd unit status.
Listing unit files with systemctl.
Controlling system services.
Starting and stopping system daemons.
Unit dependencies.
Masking services.
Enabling system daemons to start or stop at boot.
Systemctl commands.