.TH CMON 8
.SH NAME
cmon \- ceph monitor daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B cmon
\fImondatapath\fP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B cmon
is the cluster monitor daemon for the Ceph distributed file system.
One or more instances
of \fBcmon\fP form a Paxos part-time parliament cluster that provides
extremely reliable and durable storage of cluster membership, configuration,
and state.
.PP
The \fImondatapath\fP refers to a directory on a local file system
storing monitor data.  
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-D\fP
Debug mode: do not daemonize after startup (run in foreground) and send log output
to stdout.
.TP
\fB\-f\fP
do not daemonize after startup (run in foreground), but log to the usual location.
Useful when run via 
.BR crun (8).
.TP
\fB\-c\fI ceph.conf\fR, \fB\-\-conf=\fIceph.conf\fR
Use \fIceph.conf\fP configuration file instead of the default \fI/etc/ceph/ceph.conf\fP
for runtime configuration options.
.TP
\fB\-C\fI cluster.conf\fR, \fB\-\-cluster-conf=\fIcluster.conf\fR
Use \fIcluster.conf\fP cluster configuration file instead of the default \fI/etc/ceph/cluster.conf\fP
to determine monitor addresses during startup.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B cmon
is part of the Ceph distributed file system.  Please refer to the Ceph wiki at
http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki for more information.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ceph (8),
.BR mkmonfs (8),
.BR cmds (8),
.BR cosd (8)