Neutron services and agents

A properly running Neutron service will launch several Linux processes. When troubleshooting, you will want to make sure that all services are configured correctly and are running actively. If you run pgrep –l neutron, you should see a list of Neutron services, as shown in the following screenshot:

Neutron services and agents

Depending on how you have deployed Neutron, the services listed in the preceding screenshot may be spread across multiple servers. For example, your neutron-server processes may be running on your controller node, all of the agents may be on your Network node, and your Compute nodes may also be running some of the agents.

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