How to Manage the Orchid Core VMS Services in Red Hat

The two main services used by Orchid Core VMS are listed below. If you need to enable, check the status, start, or stop either service, you can do this from the command line.

• Orchid Server Service: The main Orchid Core VMS service that records and archives video.
• Orchid ONVIF Auto-Discovery Service: Used by Orchid Core VMS to automatically find cameras that support ONVIF.

Tips

• In Red Hat, you have to enable the Orchid Core VMS services. This will allow the services to automatically start on bootup and restart in the case of failure.
• After you start the services, you should configure the firewall.
• After you’ve configured your Orchid Core VMS properties and started the services, you should check the status of both services to verify they are running.
• You will need to restart the services whenever a change has been made to the Orchid Core VMS configuration file.

To enable the Orchid Core VMS services:

1. Type each of the following two commands:
   1. sudo systemctl enable orchid_onvif_autodiscovery.service. Press Enter.
   2. sudo systemctl enable orchid.service. Press Enter.

To manage the Orchid Core VMS service:

1. Type the following command: sudo systemctl (command) orchid.service (where the command is start, stop, or status). Press Enter.

To manage the Orchid ONVIF Autodiscovery service:

1. Type the following command: sudo systemctl (command) orchid_onvif_autodiscovery.service (where the command is start, stop, or status). Then press Enter.