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lxc: linux Container library

(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2007, 2008

Authors:
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com>

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  <docinfo><date>@LXC_GENERATE_DATE@</date></docinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>lxc-monitor</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>lxc-monitor</refname>

    <refpurpose>
      monitor the container state
    </refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>lxc-monitor <replaceable>-n name</replaceable>
      </command>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para>
      <command>lxc-monitor</command> monitors the state of the
      specified containers. The <replaceable>name</replaceable> can be
      a regular expression, conforming with posix2, so it is possible
      to monitor all the containers, several of them or just one.
    </para>

  </refsect1>

  &commonoptions;

  <refsect1>
    <title>Bugs</title>

    <para>
      Only one <command>lxc-monitor</command> can run at a time. Other
      invocations will fail with the following error:
    </para>
    <para>
      lxc-monitor: bind : Address already in use
    </para>

  </refsect1>
  <refsect1>
    <title>Examples</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
	<term>lxc-monitor -n foo</term>
	<listitem>
	<para>
	  will monitor the different states for container foo.
	</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
	<term>lxc-monitor -n 'foo|bar'</term>
	<listitem>
	<para>
	  will monitor the different states for container foo and bar.
	</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
	<term>lxc-monitor -n '[f|b].*'</term>
	<listitem>
	<para>
	  will monitor the different states for container with the
	  name beginning with letter 'f' or 'b'.
	</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
	<term>lxc-monitor -n '.*'</term>
	<listitem>
	<para>
	  will monitor the different states for all containers.
	</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Diagnostic</title>

    <variablelist>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>The container was not found</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
	    The specified container was not created before with
	    the <command>lxc-create</command> command.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>    


    </variablelist>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>

    <simpara>    
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>regex</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
    </simpara>

  </refsect1>

  &seealso;

  <refsect1>
    <title>Author</title>
    <para>Daniel Lezcano <email>daniel.lezcano@free.fr</email></para>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>

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