| .TH DMEVENTD 8 "DM TOOLS #VERSION#" "Red Hat Inc" \" -*- nroff -*- |
| . |
| .SH NAME |
| . |
| dmeventd \(em Device-mapper event daemon |
| . |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| . |
| .B dmeventd |
| .RB [ \-d |
| .RB [ \-d |
| .RB [ \-d ]]] |
| .RB [ \-f ] |
| .RB [ \-h ] |
| .RB [ \-l ] |
| .RB [ \-R ] |
| .RB [ \-V ] |
| .RB [ \-? ] |
| . |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| . |
| dmeventd is the event monitoring daemon for device-mapper devices. |
| Library plugins can register and carry out actions triggered when |
| particular events occur. |
| . |
| .SH LVM PLUGINS |
| . |
| .HP |
| .IR Mirror |
| .br |
| Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See |
| .BR lvm.conf (5). |
| . |
| .HP |
| .IR Raid |
| .br |
| Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See |
| .BR lvm.conf (5). |
| . |
| .HP |
| .IR Snapshot |
| .br |
| Monitors how full a snapshot is becoming and emits a warning to |
| syslog when it exceeds 80% full. |
| The warning is repeated when 85%, 90% and 95% of the snapshot is filled. |
| See |
| .BR lvm.conf (5). |
| Snapshot which runs out of space gets invalid and when it is mounted, |
| it gets umounted if possible. |
| . |
| .HP |
| .IR Thin |
| .br |
| Monitors how full a thin pool data and metadata is becoming and emits |
| a warning to syslog when it exceeds 80% full. |
| The warning is repeated when 85%, 90% and 95% of the thin pool is filled. |
| See |
| .BR lvm.conf (5). |
| If the thin-pool runs out of space, thin volumes are umounted if possible. |
| . |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| . |
| .HP |
| .BR \-d |
| .br |
| Repeat from 1 to 3 times ( |
| .BR \-d , |
| .BR \-dd , |
| .BR \-ddd |
| ) to increase the detail of |
| debug messages sent to syslog. |
| Each extra d adds more debugging information. |
| . |
| .HP |
| .BR \-f |
| .br |
| Don't fork, run in the foreground. |
| . |
| .HP |
| .BR \-h |
| .br |
| Show help information. |
| . |
| .HP |
| .BR \-l |
| .br |
| Log through stdout and stderr instead of syslog. |
| This option works only with option \-f, otherwise it is ignored. |
| . |
| .HP |
| .BR \-? |
| .br |
| Show help information on stderr. |
| . |
| .HP |
| .BR \-R |
| .br |
| Replace a running dmeventd instance. The running dmeventd must be version |
| 2.02.77 or newer. The new dmeventd instance will obtain a list of devices and |
| events to monitor from the currently running daemon. |
| . |
| .HP |
| .BR \-V |
| .br |
| Show version of dmeventd. |
| . |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| . |
| .BR lvm (8), |
| .BR lvm.conf (5) |
