keepalived. - keepalive demon

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

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.

--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) --help, -h Display a short inlined help screen. --version, -v Display the version number.

/etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf

keepalived.conf(5)

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