Automatic glassfish startup in CentOS 7/RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 (systemd)

I tried using the bundled create-service command on the asadmin but there are some issues with it. Since it's probably meant to be used on different linux distributions, it has the following limitations:

1. Does not support systemd out of the box
2. Application server must run under root account

So, this is the script I wrote (you need to place it on /etc/rc.d/init.d/glassfish and give it proper execution permission):

#!/bin/sh -

# Script to start/stop/restart GlassFish

# description: glassfish

#

if [ -z ${GLASSFISH_HOME+x} ]; then

GLASSFISH_HOME=/opt/glassfish4;

fi

if [ -z ${GLASSFISH_USER+x} ]; then

GLASSFISH_USER=glassfish;

fi

if [ -z ${GLASSFISH_DOMAIN+x} ]; then

GLASSFISH_DOMAIN=domain1;

fi

GH=$GLASSFISH_HOME

GU=$GLASSFISH_USER

GD=$GLASSFISH_DOMAIN

case "$1" in

start)

su - $GU ${GH}/bin/asadmin start-database

su - $GU ${GH}/bin/asadmin start-domain 

;;

stop)

su - $GU ${GH}/bin/asadmin stop-database

su - $GU ${GH}/bin/asadmin stop-domain $GLASSFISH_DOMAIN

;;

restart)

su - $GU ${GH}/bin/asadmin stop-domain $GLASSFISH_DOMAIN

su - $GU ${GH}/bin/asadmin start-domain $GLASSFISH_DOMAIN

;;

*)

echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"

exit 1

esac

Then you need to do:

# systemctl --system daemon-reload

# systemctl enable glassfish

# systemctl start glassfish

And you are done.

Of course, make sure you have the right values on the environment variables. For that purpose I place a glassfish.sh file under /etc/profile.d/ with the following content:

GLASSFISH_HOME=/opt/glassfish4

GLASSFISH_USER=glassfish

GLASSFISH_DOMAIN=domain1

export GLASSFISH_HOME GLASSFISH_USER GLASSFISH_DOMAIN