I wrote a post a while ago covering the use of Monit to monitor services running and the use case I covered was to ensure these services restarted on failure. While a useful feature of Monit, it seems to be now a little redundant with SystemD having a built in restart feature.

Same use case where MySQL (or MariaDB in this case) is being killed by Apache’s oom killer.

I first copied the original systemd file associated with Mariadb from /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service to /etc/systemd/system/mariadb.service

I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data”

Following the instructions here I found the process fairly painless. However there were 1 or two little niggles which caused various issues which I will detail here.

The servers were minimal CentOS 6.5 installs, with Gluster volumes shared via CTDB. The extra packages installed had mostly come from the EPEL or Glusterfs repositories, and I believe this is where the issues arise - third party repositories.