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+---
+title: "Systemd service"
+date: 2020-09-27T06:00:00+01:00
+weight: 16
+geekdocRepo: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis
+geekdocEditPath: edit/master/docs/ocis/deployment
+geekdocFilePath: systemd.md
+---
+
+{{< toc >}}
+
+## Install the oCIS binary
+Download the oCIS binary of your preferred version and for your CPU architecture and operating system from [download.owncloud.com](https://download.owncloud.com/ocis/ocis).
+
+Rename the downloaded binary to `ocis` and move it to `/usr/bin/`. As a next step, you need to mark it as executable with `chmod +x /usr/bin/ocis`.
+
+When you now run `ocis help` on your command line, you should see the available options for the oCIS command.
+
+
+## Systemd service definition
+
+Create the Systemd service definition for oCIS in the file `/etc/systemd/system/ocis.service` with following content:
+```
+[Unit]
+Description=OCIS server
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+User=root
+Group=root
+EnvironmentFile=/etc/ocis/ocis.env
+ExecStart=ocis server
+Restart=always
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+```
+
+For reasons of simplicity we are using the root user and group to run oCIS which is not recommended. Please use a non-root user in production environments and modify the oCIS service definition accordingly.
+
+
+In the service definition we referenced `/etc/ocis/ocis.env` as our file containing environment variables for the oCIS process.
+In order to create the file we need first to create the folder `/etc/ocis/` and than we can add the actual `/etc/ocis/ocis.env` with following content:
+
+```
+OCIS_URL=https://some-hostname-or-ip:9200
+PROXY_HTTP_ADDR=0.0.0.0:9200
+
+OCIS_LOG_LEVEL=error
+
+GLAUTH_LDAPS_CERT=/etc/ocis/ldap/ldaps.crt
+GLAUTH_LDAPS_KEY=/etc/ocis/ldap/ldaps.key
+IDP_TRANSPORT_TLS_CERT=/etc/ocis/idp/server.crt
+IDP_TRANSPORT_TLS_KEY=/etc/ocis/idp/server.key
+PROXY_TRANSPORT_TLS_CERT=/etc/ocis/proxy/server.crt
+PROXY_TRANSPORT_TLS_KEY=/etc/ocis/proxy/server.key
+```
+
+Please change your `OCIS_URL` in order to reflect your actual deployment.
+
+
+## Starting the oCIS service
+
+You can enable oCIS now by running `systemctl enable --now ocis`. It will ensure that oCIS also is restarted after a reboot of the host.
+
+If you need to restart oCIS because of configuration changes in `/etc/ocis/ocis.env`, run `systemctl restart ocis`.
+
+You can have a look at the logs of oCIS by issuing `journalctl -f -u ocis`.