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.TH "LXC-MONITOR" "1" "Mon Dec 16 11:31:06 UTC 2013" "" ""

.SH NAME
lxc-monitor \- monitor the container state
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBlxc-monitor \fI-n name\fB
\fR

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBlxc-monitor\fR monitors the state of the
specified containers. The \fIname\fR can be
a regular expression, conforming with posix2, so it is possible
to monitor all the containers, several of them or just one.
.SH "COMMON OPTIONS"
.PP
These options are common to most of lxc commands.
.TP
\fB-?, -h, --help\fR
Print a longer usage message than normal.
.TP
\fB--usage\fR
Give the usage message
.TP
\fB-q, --quiet\fR
mute on
.TP
\fB-o, --logfile=\fIFILE\fB\fR
Output to an alternate log
\fIFILE\fR\&. The default is no log.
.TP
\fB-l, --logpriority=\fILEVEL\fB\fR
Set log priority to
\fILEVEL\fR\&. The default log
priority is ERROR\&. Possible values are :
FATAL, CRIT,
WARN, ERROR,
NOTICE, INFO,
DEBUG\&.

Note that this option is setting the priority of the events
log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the
ERROR events log on stderr.
.TP
\fB-n, --name=\fINAME\fB\fR
Use container identifier \fINAME\fR\&.
The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.
.SH "BUGS"
.PP
Only one \fBlxc-monitor\fR can run at a time. Other
invocations will fail with the following error:
.PP
lxc-monitor: bind : Address already in use
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.TP
\fBlxc-monitor -n foo\fR
will monitor the different states for container foo.
.TP
\fBlxc-monitor -n 'foo|bar'\fR
will monitor the different states for container foo and bar.
.TP
\fBlxc-monitor -n '[f|b].*'\fR
will monitor the different states for container with the
name beginning with letter 'f' or 'b'.
.TP
\fBlxc-monitor -n '.*'\fR
will monitor the different states for all containers.
.SH "DIAGNOSTIC"
.TP
\fBThe container was not found\fR
The specified container was not created before with
the \fBlxc-create\fR command.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBregex\fR(7),
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBlxc\fR(1),
\fBlxc-create\fR(1),
\fBlxc-destroy\fR(1),
\fBlxc-start\fR(1),
\fBlxc-stop\fR(1),
\fBlxc-execute\fR(1),
\fBlxc-kill\fR(1),
\fBlxc-console\fR(1),
\fBlxc-monitor\fR(1),
\fBlxc-wait\fR(1),
\fBlxc-cgroup\fR(1),
\fBlxc-ls\fR(1),
\fBlxc-ps\fR(1),
\fBlxc-info\fR(1),
\fBlxc-freeze\fR(1),
\fBlxc-unfreeze\fR(1),
\fBlxc-attach\fR(1),
\fBlxc.conf\fR(5)
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>