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Simulate Process Faults

This document describes how to use Chaosd to simulate process faults. The process faults use the Golang interface of the kill command to simulate the scenarios that the process is killed or stopped. You can create experiments either in the command-line mode or service mode.

Create experiments using the command-line mode

Before creating an experiment, you can run the following command to see the process fault types that are supported by Chaosd:

chaosd attack process -h

The result is as follows:

Process attack related commands

Usage:
  chaosd attack process [command]

Available Commands:
  kill        kill process, default signal 9
  stop        stop process, this action will stop the process with SIGSTOP

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for process

Global Flags:
      --log-level string   the log level of chaosd, the value can be 'debug', 'info', 'warn' and 'error'

Use "chaosd attack process [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Currently, Chaosd supports simulating that a process is killed or stopped.

Killing a process using the command-line mode

Commands for killing a process

chaosd attack process kill -h

The result is as follows:

kill process, default signal 9

Usage:
  chaosd attack process kill [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help                 help for kill
  -p, --process string       The process name or the process ID
  -r, --recover-cmd string   The command to be run when recovering experiment
  -s, --signal int           The signal number to send (default 9)

Global Flags:
      --log-level string   the log level of chaosd. The value can be 'debug', 'info', 'warn' and 'error'
      --uid string         the experiment ID

Configuration description for killing a process

Configuration item	Abbreviation	Description	Value
`process`	p	The name or the identifier of the process to be injected faults	string; the default value is `""`.
`recover-cmd`	r	The command to be run when recovering experiment	string; the default value is `""`.
`signal`	s	The provided value of the process signal	int; the default value is `9`. Currently, only `SIGKILL`, `SIGTERM`, and `SIGSTOP` are supported.

Example for killing a process

chaosd attack process kill -p python

The result is as follows:

Attack process python successfully, uid: 10e633ac-0a37-41ba-8b4a-cd5ab92099f9

note

Only the experiments whose signal is SIGSTOP can be recovered.

Stopping a process using the command-line mode

Command for stopping a process

chaosd attack process stop -h

The result is as follows:

stop process, this action will stop the process with SIGSTOP

Usage:
  chaosd attack process stop [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help             help for stop
  -p, --process string   The process name or the process ID

Global Flags:
      --log-level string   the log level of chaosd, the value can be 'debug', 'info', 'warn' and 'error'

Configuration description of stopping a process

Configuration item	Abbreviation	Description	Value
`process`	p	The name or the identifier of the process to be stopped	string; the default value is `""`.

Example for stopping a process

chaosd attack process stop -p python

The result is as follows:

Attack process python successfully, uid: 9cb6b3be-4f5b-4ecb-ae05-51050fcd0010

Create experiments using the service mode

To create experiments using the service mode, follow the instructions below:

Run Chaosd in the service mode:
```
chaosd server --port 31767
```
Send a POST HTTP request to the /api/attack/process path of the Chaosd service.
```
curl -X POST 172.16.112.130:31767/api/attack/process -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{fault-configuration}'
```
In the above command, you need to configure fault-configuration according to the fault types. For the corresponding parameters, refer to the parameters and examples of each fault type in the following sections.

note

When running an experiment, remember to record the UID of the experiment. When you want to end the experiment corresponding to the UID, you need to send a DELETE HTTP request to the /api/attack/{uid} path of the Chaosd service.