From 307983270ca52c73a18092a18263f2f5dae71dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Moussa <moussa1@llnl.gov>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 09:10:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] accounting-guide: add service setup instructions

Add instructions to the flux-accounting guide on installing and setting
up the flux-accounting service to be run alongside a Flux system
instance.
---
 guides/accounting-guide.rst | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/guides/accounting-guide.rst b/guides/accounting-guide.rst
index 1bf2eef..9fc843a 100644
--- a/guides/accounting-guide.rst
+++ b/guides/accounting-guide.rst
@@ -61,7 +61,27 @@ Installing Software Packages
 ============================
 
 The ``flux-accounting`` package should be installed on the management node
-from your Linux distribution package manager.
+from your Linux distribution package manager. Once installed, the service
+that accepts ``flux account`` commands and interacts with the flux-accounting
+database can be started.
+
+You can enable the service with ``systemctl``; if not configured with a custom
+path, the flux-accounting systemd unit file will be installed to the same
+location as flux-core's systemd unit file:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ sudo systemctl enable /path/to/flux-accounting.service
+
+The service can then be controlled with ``systemd``. The service makes the
+following assumptions:
+
+1. A flux-accounting database has been created with ``flux account create-db``.
+The service establishes a connection with the database in order to read from
+and write to it.
+
+2. An active Flux system instance is running. The flux-accounting service will
+only run after the system instance is started.
 
 Accounting Database Creation
 ============================