Service gnocchi-api not found

Question

I've been installing Ceilometer for Openstack Pike on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using this install guide.

Everything went ok, up to the moment, when but when I've tried to restart gnocchi-api I got message

Failed to start gnocchi-api.service: Unit gnocchi-api.service not found.

I checked /etc/init.d and there is no script gnocchi-api (although gnocchi-metricd is, and it's working properly). Tried reinstalling package gnocchi-api, but it didn't help. When starting gnocchi-api normally, from the command line it works, although sends a bunch of warnings (but I think they are common)

I'm looking for a way to make it work normally - like a service and using conf file.

2017-11-27 20:01:40.593 6059 INFO gnocchi.rest.app [-] WSGI config used: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnocchi/rest/api-paste.ini

2017-11-27 20:01:40.753 6059 WARNING keystonemiddleware._common.config [-] The option "__file__" in conf is not known to auth_token

2017-11-27 20:01:40.759 6059 WARNING keystonemiddleware._common.config [-] The option "configkey" in conf is not known to auth_token

2017-11-27 20:01:40.760 6059 WARNING keystonemiddleware._common.config [-] The option "here" in conf is not known to auth_token

2017-11-27 20:01:40.762 6059 WARNING keystonemiddleware.auth_token [-] AuthToken middleware is set with keystone_authtoken.service_token_roles_required set to False. This is backwards compatible but deprecated behaviour. Please set this to True.

2017-11-27 20:01:40.768 6059 WARNING keystonemiddleware.auth_token [-] Configuring auth_uri to point to the public identity endpoint is required; clients may not be able to authenticate against an admin endpoint

STARTING test server gnocchi.rest.app.build_wsgi_app Available at http://127.0.1.1:8000/ DANGER! For testing only, do not use in production

Answer 1

This is the same on the latest version on Ubuntu 16.04 / gnocchi version 4.2.0

Confirmed bug as of now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ceilometer/+bug/1750933

gnocchi-api.service unit cannot be started as it has not been created.

Answer 2

apt-get currently pulls version 3.1.9 of gnocchi-api. If you manually install gnocchi-api 3.1.2, this service file is very much there in it. service gnocchi-api start works fine with this.

But I am not sure if functionality is ok or if this is an intended change with 3.1.9.. Still to check these.