XNBD-WATCHDOG(1)					      General Commands Manual						  XNBD-WATCHDOG(1)

NAME

       xnbd-watchdog -- Watch a NBD device as started by xnbd-client(1)

SYNOPSIS

       xnbd-watchdog [--timeout SECONDS]  [--interval SECONDS]	[--recovery-command COMMAND]  [--recovery-command-reboot]  [NBD_DEVICE]

DESCRIPTION

       With the xnbd-watchdog, you can monitor a running nbd-client	and trigger actions on failure.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --timeout SECONDS
		 Triggers  the recovery command action if the watchdog process is unable to connect to the NBD_DEVICE within the given timeout. If
		 not given, this defaults to 10 seconds.

       --interval SECONDS
		 Specifies the polling interval between probes. If not given, this defaults to 10 seconds.

       --recovery-command COMMAND
		 If given, the COMMAND is executed if the watchdog is unable to connect the NBD device after timeout exceeded.

       --recovery-command-reboot
		 This argument is a shortcut for --recovery-command 'reboot now'. That is, it will reboot the server upon failure.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

       The following positional options are supported:

       NBD_SERVER
		 The local nbd-device to be associated with the remote xnbd-server.

SEE ALSO

       xnbd-server (8).

AUTHOR

       The NBD kernel module and the NBD tools have been written by  Pavel  Macheck  (pavel@ucw.cz)  and  is  now  maintained  by  Paul  Clements.
       (Paul.Clements@steeleye.com).

       The xNBD userland (client and server) have been written by Takahiro Hirofuchi (t.hirofuchi@aist.go.jp)

       This  manual  page  was written by Arno Toell (debian@toell.net) for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published  by  the
       Free Software Foundation.

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