NAME

       keepalived. - keepalive demon

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/keepalived [-n] [-f keepalived.conf] [-d] [-h] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       The  keepalived  The  keepalived  server  implements the vrrpd routing demon which enables
       routing failover for a pair (or set) of routers (or  LVS  directors)  and  the  keepalived
       demon  which  sets  up and does the health checking of virtual services in a Linux Virtual
       Servier.

OPTIONS

       --vrrp, -P
              Only run the VRRP subsystem.

       --check, -C
              Only run the healthchecker subsystem.

       --dont-release-vrrp, -V
              leave (don't remove) VRRP VIPs & VROUTEs on daemon stop.

       --dont-release-ipvs, -I
              Dont remove IPVS topology on daemon stop.

       --dont-fork, -n
              Dont fork the daemon process.

       --use-file, -f keepalived.conf_file
              Use the specified configuration file.

       --wdog-vrrp, -R
              Define VRRP watchdog polling delay (default=5s)

       --wdog-check, -H
              Define healthchecker's watchdog polling delay (default=5s)

       --dump-conf, -d
              Dump the configuration data.

       --log-console, -l
              Log messages to local console.

       --log-detail, -D
              Detailed log messages (the default with the rc script provided).

       --log-facility, -S
              0-7 Set syslog facility to LOG_LOCAL[0-7] (default=LOG_DAEMON)

       --snmp, -x
              Enable SNMP support

       --help, -h
              Display a short inlined help screen.

       --version, -v
              Display the version number.

FILES

       /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf

SEE ALSO

       keepalived.conf(5)

AUTHORS

       Joseph Mack
       from inspection of the output of keepalived --help from keepalived-1.1.4

                                             Jan 2004                               keepalived(8)