NAME

       traffic_manager - Traffic Server process manager

DESCRIPTION

       --aconfPort PORT

       --action TAGS

       --debug TAGS

       --groupAddr ADDRESS

       --help

       --nosyslog

       --path FILE

       --proxyOff

       --listenOff

       --proxyPort PORT

       --recordsConf FILE

       --tsArgs ARGUMENTS

       --maxRecords RECORDS

       --bind_stdout FILE

       The file to which the stdout stream for traffic_manager will be bound.

       --bind_stderr FILE

       The file to which the stderr stream for traffic_manager will be bound.

       --version

SIGNALS

       SIGHUP This signal causes a reconfiguration event, equivalent to running traffic_ctl config reload.

       SIGINT, SIGTERM
              These signals cause traffic_manager to exit after also shutting down traffic_server.

       SIGUSR2
              This signal causes the traffic_manager and traffic_server processes to close and reopen their file
              descriptors  for  all  of  their  log  files.  This allows the use of external tools to handle log
              rotation and retention. For instance, logrotate(8) can be configured to rotate the various  Apache
              Traffic  Server™  logs  and,  via  the  logrotate  postrotate  script,  send  a  -SIGUSR2  to  the
              traffic_manager process. After the signal is received, Apache Traffic Server™ will stop logging to
              the now-rolled files and will reopen log files with the originally configured log names.

EXPONENTIAL BACK-OFF DELAY

          If traffic_server has issues communicating with  traffic_manager after a crash,  traffic_manager  will
          retry to start  traffic_server using an exponential back-off delay, which will make traffic_manager to
          retry  starting  traffic_server  from  1s  until  it reaches the max ceiling time. The ceiling time is
          configurable  as well as  the  number  of  times  that  traffic_manager  will  keep  trying  to  start
          traffic_server. A random variance will be added to the sleep time on every retry

       NOTE:
          For more information about this configuration please check records.config

SEE ALSO

       traffic_ctl(8), traffic_server(8)

COPYRIGHT

       2026, dev@trafficserver.apache.org

9.2                                               Feb 12, 2026                                TRAFFIC_MANAGER(8)