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ctdb 1 ctdb CTDB - clustered TDB database
ctdb CTDB management utility
`ctdb` OPTION COMMAND COMMAND-ARGS

## DESCRIPTION

ctdb is a utility to view and manage a CTDB cluster.

The following terms are used when referring to nodes in a cluster:

PNN

  Physical Node Number. The physical node number is an integer that describes the node in the cluster. The first node has physical node number 0. in a cluster.

PNN-LIST

  This is either a single PNN, a comma-separate list of PNNs or "all".

Commands that reference a database use the following terms:

DB

  This is either a database name, such as `locking.tdb` or a database ID such as "0x42fe72c5".

DB-LIST

  A space separated list of at least one DB.

## OPTIONS

-n PNN

  The node specified by PNN should be queried for the requested information. Default is to query the daemon running on the local host.

-Y

  Produce output in machine readable form for easier parsing by scripts. This uses a field delimiter of ':'. Not all commands support this option.

-x SEPARATOR

  Use SEPARATOR to delimit fields in machine readable output. This implies -Y.

-X

  Produce output in machine readable form for easier parsing by scripts. This uses a field delimiter of '|'. Not all commands support this option.

  This is equivalent to "-x|" and avoids some shell quoting issues.

-t TIMEOUT

  Indicates that ctdb should wait up to TIMEOUT seconds for a response to most commands sent to the CTDB daemon. The default is 10 seconds.

-T TIMELIMIT

  Indicates that TIMELIMIT is the maximum run time (in seconds) for the ctdb command. When TIMELIMIT is exceeded the ctdb command will terminate with an error. The default is 120 seconds.

-? --help

  Print some help text to the screen.

--usage

  Print usage information to the screen.

-d --debug=DEBUGLEVEL

  Change the debug level for the command. Default is NOTICE.

## ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDS

These are commands used to monitor and administer a CTDB cluster.

### pnn

This command displays the PNN of the current node.

### status

This command shows the current status of all CTDB nodes based on information from the queried node.

Note: If the queried node is INACTIVE then the status might not be current.

#### Node status

This includes the number of physical nodes and the status of each node. See ctdb 7 for information about node states.

#### Generation

The generation id is a number that indicates the current generation of a cluster instance. Each time a cluster goes through a reconfiguration or a recovery its generation id will be changed.

This number does not have any particular meaning other than to keep track of when a cluster has gone through a recovery. It is a random number that represents the current instance of a ctdb cluster and its databases. The CTDB daemon uses this number internally to be able to tell when commands to operate on the cluster and the databases was issued in a different generation of the cluster, to ensure that commands that operate on the databases will not survive across a cluster database recovery. After a recovery, all old outstanding commands will automatically become invalid.

Sometimes this number will be shown as "INVALID". This only means that the ctdbd daemon has started but it has not yet merged with the cluster through a recovery. All nodes start with generation "INVALID" and are not assigned a real generation id until they have successfully been merged with a cluster through a recovery.

#### Virtual Node Number (VNN) map

Consists of the number of virtual nodes and mapping from virtual node numbers to physical node numbers. Only nodes that are participating in the VNN map can become lmaster for database records.

#### Recovery mode

This is the current recovery mode of the cluster. There are two possible modes:

NORMAL - The cluster is fully operational.

RECOVERY - The cluster databases have all been frozen, pausing all services while the cluster awaits a recovery process to complete. A recovery process should finish within seconds. If a cluster is stuck in the RECOVERY state this would indicate a cluster malfunction which needs to be investigated.

Once the leader detects an inconsistency, for example a node becomes disconnected/connected, the recovery daemon will trigger a cluster recovery process, where all databases are remerged across the cluster. When this process starts, the leader will first "freeze" all databases to prevent applications such as samba from accessing the databases and it will also mark the recovery mode as RECOVERY.

When the CTDB daemon starts up, it will start in RECOVERY mode. Once the node has been merged into a cluster and all databases have been recovered, the node mode will change into NORMAL mode and the databases will be "thawed", allowing samba to access the databases again.

#### Leader

This is the cluster node that is currently designated as the leader. This node is responsible of monitoring the consistency of the cluster and to perform the actual recovery process when required.

Only one node at a time can be the designated leader. Which node is designated the leader is decided by an election process in the recovery daemons running on each node.

#### Example

    # ctdb status
    Number of nodes:4
    pnn:0 192.168.2.200       OK (THIS NODE)
    pnn:1 192.168.2.201       OK
    pnn:2 192.168.2.202       OK
    pnn:3 192.168.2.203       OK
    Generation:1362079228
    Size:4
    hash:0 lmaster:0
    hash:1 lmaster:1
    hash:2 lmaster:2
    hash:3 lmaster:3
    Recovery mode:NORMAL (0)
    Leader:0

### nodestatus PNN-LIST

This command is similar to the `status` command. It displays the "node status" subset of output. The main differences are:

- The exit code is the bitwise-OR of the flags for each specified node, while `ctdb status` exits with 0 if it was able to retrieve status for all nodes.

- `ctdb status` provides status information for all nodes. `ctdb nodestatus` defaults to providing status for only the current node. If PNN-LIST is provided then status is given for the indicated node(s).

A common invocation in scripts is `ctdb nodestatus all` to check whether all nodes in a cluster are healthy.

#### Example

    # ctdb nodestatus
    pnn:0 10.0.0.30        OK (THIS NODE)

    # ctdb nodestatus all
    Number of nodes:2
    pnn:0 10.0.0.30        OK (THIS NODE)
    pnn:1 10.0.0.31        OK

### leader

This command shows the pnn of the node which is currently the leader.

Note: If the queried node is INACTIVE then the status might not be current.

### uptime

This command shows the uptime for the ctdb daemon. When the last recovery or ip-failover completed and how long it took. If the "duration" is shown as a negative number, this indicates that there is a recovery/failover in progress and it started that many seconds ago.

#### Example

    # ctdb uptime
    Current time of node          :                Thu Oct 29 10:38:54 2009
    Ctdbd start time              : (000 16:54:28) Wed Oct 28 17:44:26 2009
    Time of last recovery/failover: (000 16:53:31) Wed Oct 28 17:45:23 2009
    Duration of last recovery/failover: 2.248552 seconds

### listnodes

This command shows lists the ip addresses of all the nodes in the cluster.

#### Example

    # ctdb listnodes
    192.168.2.200
    192.168.2.201
    192.168.2.202
    192.168.2.203

### natgw {leader|list|status}

This command shows different aspects of NAT gateway status. For an overview of CTDB's NAT gateway functionality please see the NAT GATEWAY section in ctdb 7.

leader

  Show the PNN and private IP address of the current NAT gateway leader node.

  Example output:

      1 192.168.2.201

list

  List the private IP addresses of nodes in the current NAT gateway group, annotating the leader node.

  Example output:

      192.168.2.200
      192.168.2.201	LEADER
      192.168.2.202
      192.168.2.203

status

  List the nodes in the current NAT gateway group and their status.

  Example output:

      pnn:0 192.168.2.200       UNHEALTHY (THIS NODE)
      pnn:1 192.168.2.201       OK
      pnn:2 192.168.2.202       OK
      pnn:3 192.168.2.203       OK

### ping

This command will "ping" specified CTDB nodes in the cluster to verify that they are running.

#### Example

    # ctdb ping
    response from 0 time=0.000054 sec  (3 clients)

### ifaces

This command will display the list of network interfaces, which could host public addresses, along with their status.

#### Example

    # ctdb ifaces
    Interfaces on node 0
    name:eth5 link:up references:2
    name:eth4 link:down references:0
    name:eth3 link:up references:1
    name:eth2 link:up references:1

    # ctdb -X ifaces
    |Name|LinkStatus|References|
    |eth5|1|2|
    |eth4|0|0|
    |eth3|1|1|
    |eth2|1|1|

### ip

This command will display the list of public addresses that are provided by the cluster and which physical node is currently serving this ip. By default this command will ONLY show those public addresses that are known to the node itself. To see the full list of all public ips across the cluster you must use "ctdb ip all".

#### Example

    # ctdb ip -v
    Public IPs on node 0
    172.31.91.82 node[1] active[] available[eth2,eth3] configured[eth2,eth3]
    172.31.91.83 node[0] active[eth3] available[eth2,eth3] configured[eth2,eth3]
    172.31.91.84 node[1] active[] available[eth2,eth3] configured[eth2,eth3]
    172.31.91.85 node[0] active[eth2] available[eth2,eth3] configured[eth2,eth3]
    172.31.92.82 node[1] active[] available[eth5] configured[eth4,eth5]
    172.31.92.83 node[0] active[eth5] available[eth5] configured[eth4,eth5]
    172.31.92.84 node[1] active[] available[eth5] configured[eth4,eth5]
    172.31.92.85 node[0] active[eth5] available[eth5] configured[eth4,eth5]

    # ctdb -X ip -v
    |Public IP|Node|ActiveInterface|AvailableInterfaces|ConfiguredInterfaces|
    |172.31.91.82|1||eth2,eth3|eth2,eth3|
    |172.31.91.83|0|eth3|eth2,eth3|eth2,eth3|
    |172.31.91.84|1||eth2,eth3|eth2,eth3|
    |172.31.91.85|0|eth2|eth2,eth3|eth2,eth3|
    |172.31.92.82|1||eth5|eth4,eth5|
    |172.31.92.83|0|eth5|eth5|eth4,eth5|
    |172.31.92.84|1||eth5|eth4,eth5|
    |172.31.92.85|0|eth5|eth5|eth4,eth5|

### ipinfo IP

This command will display details about the specified public addresses.

#### Example

    # ctdb ipinfo 172.31.92.85
    Public IP[172.31.92.85] info on node 0
    IP:172.31.92.85
    CurrentNode:0
    NumInterfaces:2
    Interface[1]: Name:eth4 Link:down References:0
    Interface[2]: Name:eth5 Link:up References:2 (active)

### event run|status|script list|script enable|script disable

This command is used to control event daemon and to inspect status of various events.

The commands below require a component to be specified. In the current version the only valid component is `legacy`.

run TIMEOUT COMPONENT EVENT ARGUMENTS

  This command can be used to manually run specified EVENT in COMPONENT with optional ARGUMENTS. The event will be allowed to run a maximum of TIMEOUT seconds. If TIMEOUT is 0, then there is no time limit for running the event.

status COMPONENT EVENT

  This command displays the last execution status of the specified EVENT in COMPONENT.

  The command will terminate with the exit status corresponding to the overall status of event that is displayed.

  The output is the list of event scripts executed. Each line shows the name, status, duration and start time for each script. Output from each script is shown.

  Example #1

      # ctdb event status legacy monitor
      00.ctdb              OK         0.014 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      01.reclock           OK         0.013 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      05.system            OK         0.029 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      10.interface         OK         0.037 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      11.natgw             OK         0.011 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      11.routing           OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      13.per_ip_routing    OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      20.multipathd        OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      31.clamd             OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      40.vsftpd            OK         0.013 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      41.httpd             OK         0.018 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      49.winbind           OK         0.023 Sat Apr 15 19:39:11 2024
      50.samba             OK         0.100 Sat Apr 15 19:39:12 2024
      60.nfs               OK         0.376 Sat Apr 15 19:39:12 2024
      70.iscsi             OK         0.009 Sat Apr 15 19:39:12 2024
      91.lvs               OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:39:12 2024
      95.database          OK         0.009 Sat Apr 15 19:39:12 2024

  Example #2

      # ctdb event status legacy monitor
      00.ctdb              OK         0.011 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      01.reclock           OK         0.010 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      05.system            OK         0.030 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      10.interface         OK         0.041 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      11.natgw             OK         0.008 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      11.routing           OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      13.per_ip_routing    OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      20.multipathd        OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      31.clamd             OK         0.007 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      40.vsftpd            OK         0.013 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      41.httpd             OK         0.015 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      49.winbind           OK         0.022 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
      50.samba             ERROR      0.077 Sat Apr 15 19:40:46 2024
        OUTPUT: ERROR: samba tcp port 445 is not responding

script list COMPONENT

  List the available event scripts in COMPONENT. Enabled scripts are flagged with a '*'.

  Generally, event scripts are provided by CTDB. However, local or 3rd party event scripts may also be available. These are shown in a separate section after those provided by CTDB.

  Example

      # ctdb event script list legacy
      * 00.ctdb
      * 01.reclock
      * 05.system
      * 10.interface
        11.natgw
        11.routing
        13.per_ip_routing
        20.multipathd
        31.clamd
        40.vsftpd
        41.httpd
      * 49.winbind
      * 50.samba
      * 60.nfs
        70.iscsi
        91.lvs
      * 95.database

      * 02.local

script enable COMPONENT SCRIPT

  Enable the specified event SCRIPT in COMPONENT. Only enabled scripts will be executed when running any event.

script disable COMPONENT SCRIPT

  Disable the specified event SCRIPT in COMPONENT. This will prevent the script from executing when running any event.

### scriptstatus

This is an alias for `ctdb event status legacy EVENT`, where EVENT defaults to `monitor`.

This command is deprecated. It's provided for backward compatibility. Use `ctdb event status` instead.

### listvars

List all tuneable variables, except the values of the obsolete tunables like VacuumMinInterval. The obsolete tunables can be retrieved only explicitly with the "ctdb getvar" command.

#### Example

    # ctdb listvars
    SeqnumInterval          = 1000
    ControlTimeout          = 60
    TraverseTimeout         = 20
    KeepaliveInterval       = 5
    KeepaliveLimit          = 5
    RecoverTimeout          = 120
    RecoverInterval         = 1
    ElectionTimeout         = 3
    TakeoverTimeout         = 9
    MonitorInterval         = 15
    TickleUpdateInterval    = 20
    EventScriptTimeout      = 30
    MonitorTimeoutCount     = 20
    RecoveryGracePeriod     = 120
    RecoveryBanPeriod       = 300
    DatabaseHashSize        = 100001
    DatabaseMaxDead         = 5
    RerecoveryTimeout       = 10
    EnableBans              = 1
    NoIPFailback            = 0
    VerboseMemoryNames      = 0
    RecdPingTimeout         = 60
    RecdFailCount           = 10
    LogLatencyMs            = 0
    RecLockLatencyMs        = 1000
    RecoveryDropAllIPs      = 120
    VacuumInterval          = 10
    VacuumMaxRunTime        = 120
    RepackLimit             = 10000
    VacuumFastPathCount     = 60
    MaxQueueDropMsg         = 1000000
    AllowUnhealthyDBRead    = 0
    StatHistoryInterval     = 1
    DeferredAttachTO        = 120
    AllowClientDBAttach     = 1
    RecoverPDBBySeqNum      = 1
    DeferredRebalanceOnNodeAdd = 300
    FetchCollapse           = 1
    HopcountMakeSticky      = 50
    StickyDuration          = 600
    StickyPindown           = 200
    NoIPTakeover            = 0
    DBRecordCountWarn       = 100000
    DBRecordSizeWarn        = 10000000
    DBSizeWarn              = 100000000
    PullDBPreallocation     = 10485760
    LockProcessesPerDB      = 200
    RecBufferSizeLimit      = 1000000
    QueueBufferSize         = 1024
    IPAllocAlgorithm        = 2

### getvar NAME

Get the runtime value of a tuneable variable.

#### Example

    # ctdb getvar MonitorInterval
    MonitorInterval         = 15

### setvar NAME VALUE

Set the runtime value of a tuneable variable.

#### Example

    # ctdb setvar MonitorInterval 20

### lvs {leader|list|status}

This command shows different aspects of LVS status. For an overview of CTDB's LVS functionality please see the LVS section in ctdb 7.

leader

  Shows the PNN of the current LVS leader node.

  Example output:

      2

list

  Lists the currently usable LVS nodes.

  Example output:

      2 10.0.0.13
      3 10.0.0.14

status

  List the nodes in the current LVS group and their status.

  Example output:

      pnn:0 10.0.0.11        UNHEALTHY (THIS NODE)
      pnn:1 10.0.0.12        UNHEALTHY
      pnn:2 10.0.0.13        OK
      pnn:3 10.0.0.14        OK

### getcapabilities

This command shows the capabilities of the current node. See the CAPABILITIES section in ctdb 7 for more details.

Example output:

    LEADER: YES
    LMASTER: YES

### statistics

Collect statistics from the CTDB daemon about how many calls it has served. Information about various fields in statistics can be found in ctdb-statistics 7.

#### Example

    # ctdb statistics
    CTDB version 1
    Current time of statistics  :                Tue Mar  8 15:18:51 2016
    Statistics collected since  : (003 21:31:32) Fri Mar  4 17:47:19 2016
     num_clients                        9
     frozen                             0
     recovering                         0
     num_recoveries                     2
     client_packets_sent          8170534
     client_packets_recv          7166132
     node_packets_sent           16549998
     node_packets_recv            5244418
     keepalive_packets_sent        201969
     keepalive_packets_recv        201969
     node
         req_call                      26
         reply_call                     0
         req_dmaster                    9
         reply_dmaster                 12
         reply_error                    0
         req_message              1339231
         req_control              8177506
         reply_control            6831284
     client
         req_call                      15
         req_message               334809
         req_control              6831308
     timeouts
         call                           0
         control                        0
         traverse                       0
     locks
         num_calls                      8
         num_current                    0
         num_pending                    0
         num_failed                     0
     total_calls                       15
     pending_calls                      0
     childwrite_calls                   0
     pending_childwrite_calls             0
     memory_used                   394879
     max_hop_count                      1
     total_ro_delegations               0
     total_ro_revokes                   0
     hop_count_buckets: 8 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
     lock_buckets: 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
     locks_latency      MIN/AVG/MAX     0.010005/0.010418/0.011010 sec out of 8
     reclock_ctdbd      MIN/AVG/MAX     0.002538/0.002538/0.002538 sec out of 1
     reclock_recd       MIN/AVG/MAX     0.000000/0.000000/0.000000 sec out of 0
     call_latency       MIN/AVG/MAX     0.000044/0.002142/0.011702 sec out of 15
     childwrite_latency MIN/AVG/MAX     0.000000/0.000000/0.000000 sec out of 0

### statisticsreset

This command is used to clear all statistics counters in a node.

Example: ctdb statisticsreset

### dbstatistics DB

Display statistics about the database DB. Information about various fields in dbstatistics can be found in ctdb-statistics 7.

#### Example

    # ctdb dbstatistics locking.tdb
    DB Statistics: locking.tdb
     ro_delegations                     0
     ro_revokes                         0
     locks
         total                      14356
         failed                         0
         current                        0
         pending                        0
     hop_count_buckets: 28087 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
     lock_buckets: 0 14188 38 76 32 19 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
     locks_latency      MIN/AVG/MAX     0.001066/0.012686/4.202292 sec out of 14356
     vacuum_latency     MIN/AVG/MAX     0.000472/0.002207/15.243570 sec out of 224530
     Num Hot Keys:     1
         Count:8 Key:ff5bd7cb3ee3822edc1f0000000000000000000000000000

### getreclock

Show details of the recovery lock, if any.

Example output:

    	/clusterfs/.ctdb/recovery.lock

### getdebug

Get the current debug level for the node. the debug level controls what information is written to the log file.

The debug levels are mapped to the corresponding syslog levels. When a debug level is set, only those messages at that level and higher levels will be printed.

The list of debug levels from highest to lowest are :

ERROR WARNING NOTICE INFO DEBUG

### setdebug DEBUGLEVEL

Set the debug level of a node. This controls what information will be logged.

The debuglevel is one of ERROR WARNING NOTICE INFO DEBUG

### getpid

This command will return the process id of the ctdb daemon.

### disable

This command is used to administratively disable a node in the cluster. A disabled node will still participate in the cluster and host clustered TDB records but its public ip address has been taken over by a different node and it no longer hosts any services.

### enable

Re-enable a node that has been administratively disabled.

### stop

This command is used to administratively STOP a node in the cluster. A STOPPED node is connected to the cluster but will not host any public ip addresses, nor does it participate in the VNNMAP. The difference between a DISABLED node and a STOPPED node is that a STOPPED node does not host any parts of the database which means that a recovery is required to stop/continue nodes.

### continue

Re-start a node that has been administratively stopped.

### addip IPADDR/mask IFACE

This command is used to add a new public ip to a node during runtime. It should be followed by a `ctdb ipreallocate`. This allows public addresses to be added to a cluster without having to restart the ctdb daemons.

Note that this only updates the runtime instance of ctdb. Any changes will be lost next time ctdb is restarted and the public addresses file is re-read. If you want this change to be permanent you must also update the public addresses file manually.

### delip IPADDR

This command flags IPADDR for deletion from a node at runtime. It should be followed by a `ctdb ipreallocate`. If IPADDR is currently hosted by the node it is being removed from, this ensures that the IP will first be failed over to another node, if possible, and that it is then actually removed.

Note that this only updates the runtime instance of CTDB. Any changes will be lost next time CTDB is restarted and the public addresses file is re-read. If you want this change to be permanent you must also update the public addresses file manually.

### moveip IPADDR PNN

This command can be used to manually fail a public ip address to a specific node.

In order to manually override the "automatic" distribution of public ip addresses that ctdb normally provides, this command only works when you have changed the tunables for the daemon to:

IPAllocAlgorithm != 0

NoIPFailback = 1

### shutdown

This command will shutdown a specific CTDB daemon.

### setlmasterrole on|off

This command is used to enable/disable the LMASTER capability for a node at runtime. This capability determines whether or not a node can be used as an LMASTER for records in the database. A node that does not have the LMASTER capability will not show up in the vnnmap.

Nodes will by default have this capability, but it can be stripped off nodes by the setting in the sysconfig file or by using this command.

Once this setting has been enabled/disabled, you need to perform a recovery for it to take effect.

See also "ctdb getcapabilities"

### setleaderrole on|off

This command is used to enable/disable the LEADER capability for a node at runtime. This capability determines whether or not a node can be elected leader of the cluster. A node that does not have the LEADER capability can not be elected leader. If the current leader has this capability removed then an election will occur.

Nodes have this capability enabled by default, but it can be removed via the `cluster:leader capability` configuration setting or by using this command.

See also "ctdb getcapabilities"

### reloadnodes

This command is used when adding new nodes, or removing existing nodes from an existing cluster.

Procedure to add nodes:

1. To expand an existing cluster, first ensure with `ctdb status` that all nodes are up and running and that they are all healthy. Do not try to expand a cluster unless it is completely healthy!

2. On all nodes, edit `/usr/local/etc/ctdb/nodes` and add the new nodes at the end of this file.

3. Verify that all the nodes have identical `/usr/local/etc/ctdb/nodes` files after adding the new nodes.

4. Run `ctdb reloadnodes` to force all nodes to reload the nodes file.

5. Use `ctdb status` on all nodes and verify that they now show the additional nodes.

6. Install and configure the new node and bring it online.

Procedure to remove nodes:

1. To remove nodes from an existing cluster, first ensure with `ctdb status` that all nodes, except the node to be deleted, are up and running and that they are all healthy. Do not try to remove nodes from a cluster unless the cluster is completely healthy!

2. Shutdown and power off the node to be removed.

3. On all other nodes, edit the `/usr/local/etc/ctdb/nodes` file and comment out the nodes to be removed. Do not delete the lines for the deleted nodes, just comment them out by adding a '#' at the beginning of the lines.

4. Run `ctdb reloadnodes` to force all nodes to reload the nodes file.

5. Use `ctdb status` on all nodes and verify that the deleted nodes are no longer listed.

### reloadips PNN-LIST

This command reloads the public addresses configuration file on the specified nodes. When it completes addresses will be reconfigured and reassigned across the cluster as necessary.

This command is currently unable to make changes to the netmask or interfaces associated with existing addresses. Such changes must be made in 2 steps by deleting addresses in question and re-adding then. Unfortunately this will disrupt connections to the changed addresses.

### getdbmap

This command lists all clustered TDB databases that the CTDB daemon has attached to. Some databases are flagged as PERSISTENT, this means that the database stores data persistently and the data will remain across reboots. One example of such a database is secrets.tdb where information about how the cluster was joined to the domain is stored. Some database are flagged as REPLICATED, this means that the data in that database is replicated across all the nodes. But the data will not remain across reboots. This type of database is used by CTDB to store it's internal state.

If a PERSISTENT database is not in a healthy state the database is flagged as UNHEALTHY. If there's at least one completely healthy node running in the cluster, it's possible that the content is restored by a recovery run automatically. Otherwise an administrator needs to analyze the problem.

See also "ctdb getdbstatus", "ctdb backupdb", "ctdb restoredb", "ctdb dumpbackup", "ctdb wipedb", "ctdb setvar AllowUnhealthyDBRead 1" and (if samba or tdb-utils are installed) "tdbtool check".

Most databases are not persistent and only store the state information that the currently running samba daemons need. These databases are always wiped when ctdb/samba starts and when a node is rebooted.

#### Example

    # ctdb getdbmap
    Number of databases:10
    dbid:0x435d3410 name:notify.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/notify.tdb.0
    dbid:0x42fe72c5 name:locking.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/locking.tdb.0
    dbid:0x1421fb78 name:brlock.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/brlock.tdb.0
    dbid:0x17055d90 name:connections.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/connections.tdb.0
    dbid:0xc0bdde6a name:sessionid.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/sessionid.tdb.0
    dbid:0x122224da name:test.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/test.tdb.0
    dbid:0x2672a57f name:idmap2.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent/idmap2.tdb.0 PERSISTENT
    dbid:0xb775fff6 name:secrets.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent/secrets.tdb.0 PERSISTENT
    dbid:0xe98e08b6 name:group_mapping.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent/group_mapping.tdb.0 PERSISTENT
    dbid:0x7bbbd26c name:passdb.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent/passdb.tdb.0 PERSISTENT

    # ctdb getdbmap  # example for unhealthy database
    Number of databases:1
    dbid:0xb775fff6 name:secrets.tdb path:/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent/secrets.tdb.0 PERSISTENT UNHEALTHY

    # ctdb -X getdbmap
    |ID|Name|Path|Persistent|Unhealthy|
    |0x7bbbd26c|passdb.tdb|/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent/passdb.tdb.0|1|0|

### backupdb DB FILE

Copy the contents of database DB to FILE. FILE can later be read back using `restoredb`. This is mainly useful for backing up persistent databases such as `secrets.tdb` and similar.

### restoredb FILE DB

This command restores a persistent database that was previously backed up using backupdb. By default the data will be restored back into the same database as it was created from. By specifying dbname you can restore the data into a different database.

### setdbreadonly DB

This command will enable the read-only record support for a database. This is an experimental feature to improve performance for contended records primarily in locking.tdb and brlock.tdb. When enabling this feature you must set it on all nodes in the cluster.

### setdbsticky DB

This command will enable the sticky record support for the specified database. This is an experimental feature to improve performance for contended records primarily in locking.tdb and brlock.tdb. When enabling this feature you must set it on all nodes in the cluster.

## INTERNAL COMMANDS

Internal commands are used by CTDB's scripts and are not required for managing a CTDB cluster. Their parameters and behaviour are subject to change.

### gettickles IPADDR

Show TCP connections that are registered with CTDB to be "tickled" if there is a failover.

### gratarp IPADDR INTERFACE

Send out a gratuitous ARP for the specified interface through the specified interface. This command is mainly used by the ctdb eventscripts.

### pdelete DB KEY

Delete KEY from DB.

### pfetch DB KEY

Print the value associated with KEY in DB.

### pstore DB KEY FILE

Store KEY in DB with contents of FILE as the associated value.

### ptrans DB FILE

Read a list of key-value pairs, one per line from FILE, and store them in DB using a single transaction. An empty value is equivalent to deleting the given key.

The key and value should be separated by spaces or tabs. Each key/value should be a printable string enclosed in double-quotes.

### runstate [setup|first_recovery|startup|running]

Print the runstate of the specified node. Runstates are used to serialise important state transitions in CTDB, particularly during startup.

If one or more optional runstate arguments are specified then the node must be in one of these runstates for the command to succeed.

#### Example

    # ctdb runstate
    RUNNING

### setifacelink IFACE up|down

Set the internal state of network interface IFACE. This is typically used in the `10.interface` script in the "monitor" event.

Example: ctdb setifacelink eth0 up

### tickle

Read a list of TCP connections, one per line, from standard input and send a TCP tickle to the source host for each connection. A connection is specified as:

    	SRC-IPADDR:SRC-PORT DST-IPADDR:DST-PORT

A single connection can be specified on the command-line rather than on standard input.

A TCP tickle is a TCP ACK packet with an invalid sequence and acknowledge number and will when received by the source host result in it sending an immediate correct ACK back to the other end.

TCP tickles are useful to "tickle" clients after a IP failover has occurred since this will make the client immediately recognize the TCP connection has been disrupted and that the client will need to reestablish. This greatly speeds up the time it takes for a client to detect and reestablish after an IP failover in the ctdb cluster.

### version

Display the CTDB version.

## DEBUGGING COMMANDS

These commands are primarily used for CTDB development and testing and should not be used for normal administration.

### OPTIONS

--print-emptyrecords

  This enables printing of empty records when dumping databases with the catdb, cattbd and dumpdbbackup commands. Records with empty data segment are considered deleted by ctdb and cleaned by the vacuuming mechanism, so this switch can come in handy for debugging the vacuuming behaviour.

--print-datasize

  This lets database dumps (catdb, cattdb, dumpdbbackup) print the size of the record data instead of dumping the data contents.

--print-lmaster

  This lets catdb print the lmaster for each record.

--print-hash

  This lets database dumps (catdb, cattdb, dumpdbbackup) print the hash for each record.

--print-recordflags

  This lets catdb and dumpdbbackup print the record flags for each record. Note that cattdb always prints the flags.

### process-exists PID [SRVID]

This command checks if a specific process exists on the CTDB host. This is mainly used by Samba to check if remote instances of samba are still running or not. When the optional SRVID argument is specified, the command check if a specific process exists on the CTDB host and has registered for specified SRVID.

### getdbstatus DB

This command displays more details about a database.

#### Example

    # ctdb getdbstatus test.tdb.0
    dbid: 0x122224da
    name: test.tdb
    path: /usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/test.tdb.0
    PERSISTENT: no
    HEALTH: OK

    # ctdb getdbstatus registry.tdb  # with a corrupted TDB
    dbid: 0xf2a58948
    name: registry.tdb
    path: /usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent/registry.tdb.0
    PERSISTENT: yes
    HEALTH: NO-HEALTHY-NODES - ERROR - Backup of corrupted TDB in '/usr/local/var/lib/ctdb/persistent/registry.tdb.0.corrupted.20091208091949.0Z'

### catdb DB

Print a dump of the clustered TDB database DB.

### cattdb DB

Print a dump of the contents of the local TDB database DB.

### dumpdbbackup FILE

Print a dump of the contents from database backup FILE, similar to `catdb`.

### wipedb DB

Remove all contents of database DB.

### recover

This command will trigger the recovery daemon to do a cluster recovery.

### ipreallocate, sync

This command will force the leader to perform a full ip reallocation process and redistribute all ip addresses. This is useful to "reset" the allocations back to its default state if they have been changed using the "moveip" command. While a "recover" will also perform this reallocation, a recovery is much more hevyweight since it will also rebuild all the databases.

### attach DBNAME [persistent|replicated]

Create a new CTDB database called DBNAME and attach to it on all nodes.

### detach DB-LIST

Detach specified non-persistent database(s) from the cluster. This command will disconnect specified database(s) on all nodes in the cluster. This command should only be used when none of the specified database(s) are in use.

All nodes should be active and tunable AllowClientDBAccess should be disabled on all nodes before detaching databases.

### dumpmemory

This is a debugging command. This command will make the ctdb daemon to write a fill memory allocation map to standard output.

### rddumpmemory

This is a debugging command. This command will dump the talloc memory allocation tree for the recovery daemon to standard output.

### ban BANTIME

Administratively ban a node for BANTIME seconds. The node will be unbanned after BANTIME seconds have elapsed.

A banned node does not participate in the cluster. It does not host any records for the clustered TDB and does not host any public IP addresses.

Nodes are automatically banned if they misbehave. For example, a node may be banned if it causes too many cluster recoveries.

To administratively exclude a node from a cluster use the `stop` command.

### unban

This command is used to unban a node that has either been administratively banned using the ban command or has been automatically banned.

## SEE ALSO

ctdbd 1, onnode 1, ctdb 7, ctdb-statistics 7, ctdb-tunables 7,