| .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 [ \-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 |
| .TP |
| .I Mirror |
| Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See \fBlvm.conf\fP(5). |
| .TP |
| .I Raid |
| Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See \fBlvm.conf\fP(5). |
| .TP |
| .I Snapshot |
| 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 \fBlvm.conf\fP(5). |
| .TP |
| .I Thin |
| Monitors how full a thin pool 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 \fBlvm.conf\fP(5). |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B \-d |
| 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. |
| .TP |
| .B \-f |
| Don't fork, run in the foreground. |
| .TP |
| .BR \-h ", " \-? |
| Show help information. |
| .TP |
| .B \-R |
| 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. |
| .TP |
| .B \-V |
| Show version of dmeventd. |
| |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR lvm (8), |
| .BR lvm.conf (5) |