lxc-monitor(1)

NAME
lxc-monitor - monitor the container state

SYNOPSIS
lxc-monitor
{-n name}

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

COMMON OPTIONS
These options are common to most of lxc commands.

\FC-?, -h, --help\F[]
    Print a longer usage message than normal.

\FC--usage\F[]
    Give the usage message

\FC-q, --quiet\F[]
    mute on

\FC-P, --lxcpath=\F[]PATH
    Use an alternate container path. The default is /var/lib/lxc.

\FC-o, --logfile=\F[]FILE
    Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.

\FC-l, --logpriority=\F[]LEVEL
    Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is \FCERROR\F[]. Possible values are : \FCFATAL\F[], \FCCRIT\F[], \FCWARN\F[], \FCERROR\F[], \FCNOTICE\F[], \FCINFO\F[], \FCDEBUG\F[]. 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.

\FC-n, --name=\F[]NAME
    Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.

BUGS
Only one lxc-monitor can run at a time. Other invocations will fail with the following error:

lxc-monitor: bind : Address already in use

EXAMPLES

lxc-monitor -n foo
    will monitor the different states for container foo.

lxc-monitor -n 'foo|bar'
    will monitor the different states for container foo and bar.

lxc-monitor -n '[f|b].*'
    will monitor the different states for container with the name beginning with letter 'f' or 'b'.

lxc-monitor -n '.*'
    will monitor the different states for all containers.

DIAGNOSTIC

The container was not found
    The specified container was not created before with the lxc-create command.

SEE ALSO
regex(7),

SEE ALSO
lxc(1), lxc-create(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-kill(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-ps(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)

AUTHOR
Daniel Lezcano <\FCdaniel.lezcano@free.fr\F[]>