stacd — STorage Appliance Connector
stacd
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stacd is a system daemon that can be used to automatically connect to NVMe-oF I/O Controllers using the discovery log pages collected by stafd(8). It can also be manually configured with stacd.conf(5) to connect to I/O Controllers that otherwise cannot be found automatically.
The following options are understood:
-fFILE
, --conf-file=FILE
Specify a different configuration file than
stacd.conf(5)
(default: /etc/stas/stacd.conf
).
-s
, --syslog
Send messages to syslog instead of stdout. Use this when
running stacd as a daemon. (default: "false
").
--tron
Trace ON. (default: "false
")
--idl=FILE
Print D-Bus IDL to FILE and exit.
stacd is managed by systemd
. The following
operations are supported:
Table 1.
Command | Description |
---|---|
$ systemctl start stacd | Start daemon. |
$ systemctl stop stacd | Stop daemon. The SIGTERM signal is used to tell the daemon to stop. |
$ systemctl restart stacd | Effectively a stop + start . |
$ systemctl reload stacd | Reload configuration. This is done in real time without restarting the daemon. The SIGHUP signal is used to tell the daemon to reload its configuration file. Note that configuration parameters that affect connections (e.g. kato ), will not apply to existing connections. Only connections established after the configuration was changed will utilize the new configuration parameters. |
stacd use the GLib
main loop.
The GLib
Python module provides several low-level
building blocks that stacd requires. In
addition, many Python modules "play nice" with GLib
such as dasbus
(D-Bus package) and pyudev
(UDev package). GLib
also provides additional components
such as timers, signal handlers, and much more.
stacd can automatically set up the I/O
connections to discovered storage subsystems. However,
stacd can also operate in a non-automatic
mode based on manually entered configuration. In other words,
storage subsystems can be entered in a configuration file named
/etc/stas/stacd.conf
.
This configuration file also provides additional parameters,
as log-level attributes used for debugging purposes.