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.. _controlling-servers:

Controlling Glance Servers
==========================

This section describes the ways to start, stop, and reload Glance's server
programs.

Starting a server
-----------------

There are two ways to start a Glance server:

* Manually calling the server program

* Using the ``glance-control`` server daemon wrapper program

We recommend using the second method.

Manually starting the server
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The first is by directly calling the server program, passing in command-line
options and a single argument for a ``paste.deploy`` configuration file to
use when configuring the server application.

.. note::

  Glance ships with an ``etc/`` directory that contains sample ``paste.deploy``
  configuration files that you can copy to a standard configuration directory and
  adapt for your own uses. Specifically, bind_host must be set properly.

If you do `not` specify a configuration file on the command line, Glance will
do its best to locate a configuration file in one of the
following directories, stopping at the first config file it finds:

* ``$CWD``
* ``~/.glance``
* ``~/``
* ``/etc/glance``
* ``/etc``

The filename that is searched for depends on the server application name. So,
if you are starting up the API server, ``glance-api.conf`` is searched for.

If no configuration file is found, you will see an error, like::

  $ glance-api
  ERROR: Unable to locate any configuration file. Cannot load application glance-api

Here is an example showing how you can manually start the ``glance-api`` server
in a shell.::

  $ sudo glance-api --config-file glance-api.conf --debug &
  jsuh@mc-ats1:~$ 2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] ********************************************************************************
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] Configuration options gathered from config file:
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] /home/jsuh/glance-api.conf
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] ================================================
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] bind_host                      65.114.169.29
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] bind_port                      9292
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] debug                          True
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] default_store                  file
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] filesystem_store_datadir       /home/jsuh/images/
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [glance-api] ********************************************************************************
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [routes.middleware] Initialized with method overriding = True, and path info altering = True
  2011-04-13 14:50:12    DEBUG [eventlet.wsgi.server] (21354) wsgi starting up on http://65.114.169.29:9292/

  $ ps aux | grep glance
  root     20009  0.7  0.1  12744  9148 pts/1    S    12:47   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/glance-api glance-api.conf --debug
  jsuh     20017  0.0  0.0   3368   744 pts/1    S+   12:47   0:00 grep glance

Simply supply the configuration file as the parameter to the ``--config-file``
option (the ``etc/glance-api.conf``  sample configuration file was used in the
above example) and then any other options you want to use. (``--debug`` was
used above to show some of the debugging output that the server shows when
starting up. Call the server program with ``--help`` to see all available
options you can specify on the command line.)

For more information on configuring the server via the ``paste.deploy``
configuration files, see the section entitled
:ref:`Configuring Glance servers <configuring>`

Note that the server `daemonizes` itself by using the standard
shell backgrounding indicator, ``&``, in the previous example.
For most use cases, we recommend using the ``glance-control`` server daemon
wrapper for daemonizing. See below for more details on daemonization
with ``glance-control``.

Using the ``glance-control`` program to start the server
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The second way to start up a Glance server is to use the ``glance-control``
program. ``glance-control`` is a wrapper script that allows the user to
start, stop, restart, and reload the other Glance server programs in
a fashion that is more conducive to automation and scripting.

Servers started via the ``glance-control`` program are always `daemonized`,
meaning that the server program process runs in the background.

To start a Glance server with ``glance-control``, simply call
``glance-control`` with a server and the word "start", followed by
any command-line options you wish to provide. Start the server
with ``glance-control`` in the following way::

  $ sudo glance-control [OPTIONS] <SERVER> start [CONFPATH]

.. note::

  You must use the ``sudo`` program to run ``glance-control`` currently, as the
  pid files for the server programs are written to /var/run/glance/

Here is an example that shows how to start the ``glance-api`` server
with the ``glance-control`` wrapper script. ::


  $ sudo glance-control api start glance-api.conf
  Starting glance-api with /home/jsuh/glance.conf

  $ ps aux | grep glance
  root     20038  4.0  0.1  12728  9116 ?        Ss   12:51   0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/glance-api /home/jsuh/glance-api.conf
  jsuh     20042  0.0  0.0   3368   744 pts/1    S+   12:51   0:00 grep glance


The same configuration files are used by ``glance-control`` to start the
Glance server programs, and you can specify (as the example above shows)
a configuration file when starting the server.


In order for your launched glance service to be monitored for unexpected death
and respawned if necessary, use the following option::


  $ sudo glance-control [service] start --respawn ...


Note that this will cause ``glance-control`` itself to remain running.
Also note that deliberately stopped services are not respawned,
neither are rapidly bouncing services (where process death occurred within
one second of the last launch).


By default, output from glance services is discarded when launched
with ``glance-control``. In order to capture such output via syslog,
use the following option::


  $ sudo glance-control --capture-output ...


Stopping a server
-----------------

If you started a Glance server manually and did not use the ``&`` backgrounding
function, simply send a terminate signal to the server process by typing
``Ctrl-C``

If you started the Glance server using the ``glance-control`` program, you can
use the ``glance-control`` program to stop it. Simply do the following::

  $ sudo glance-control <SERVER> stop

as this example shows::

  $ sudo glance-control api stop
  Stopping glance-api  pid: 17602  signal: 15

Restarting a server
-------------------

You can restart a server with the ``glance-control`` program, as demonstrated
here::

  $ sudo glance-control api restart etc/glance-api.conf
  Stopping glance-api  pid: 17611  signal: 15
  Starting glance-api with /home/jpipes/repos/glance/trunk/etc/glance-api.conf

Reloading a server
------------------

You can reload a server with the ``glance-control`` program, as demonstrated
here::

  $ sudo glance-control api reload
  Reloading glance-api (pid 18506) with signal(1)

A reload sends a SIGHUP signal to the master process and causes new
configuration settings to be picked up without any interruption to the
running service (provided neither bind_host or bind_port has changed).
