mfsgui8

Usage

Overview

mfsgui is the MooseFS GUI server. It consist of a HTTP server and scripts that make up the GUI interface to MooseFS. The user can access the GUI via any web browser, using the IP (or appropriate domain name) and port defined in mfsgui.cfg.

Options

-v

print version information and exit

-h

print usage information and exit

-c CFGFILE

specify alternative path of configuration file (default is mfsgui.cfg in system configuration directory)

-f

run in foreground, don't daemonize

-d

run with dangerous options (names: DANGEROUS_*)

-u

log undefined configuration values (when default is assumed)

-n

do not attempt to increase limit of core dump size

-t LOCKTIMEOUT

how long to wait for lockfile (in seconds; default is 60 seconds)

ACTION

tells MooseFS GUI server to perform one of the following actions:

start

Start MooseFS GUI server process if the process is not already running, otherwise display error message.

stop

Stop MooseFS GUI server process if the process is running, otherwise display error message.

restart

(default action) If the MooseFS GUI server process is running, restart it, if it's not running, start it.

reload

Send a signal to MooseFS GUI server process to reload config files.

info

Send a signal to MooseFS GUI server process to dump debug information file in working directory.

test

Displays "mfsgui pid: PID" if the MooseFS GUI server is running (and return 0) or "mfsgui is not running" otherwise (and return 1).

kill

Send termination signal to MooseFS GUI server process.

restore

Not implemented.

Files

mfsgui.cfg

configuration file for MooseFS GUI server process; refer to mfsgui.cfg(5) manual for details

.mfsgui.lock

lock file of running MooseFS GUI server process (created in data directory)

scripts

various python, javascript, and other (static) files used to serve the GUI interface via HTTP; these files are installed in whatever directory is the default at installation time for ROOT_DIR in mfsgui.cfg