Ubuntu Manpage: glance-manage - Glance Management Utility

Provided by: glance-common_31.0.0-0ubuntu1.2_all

NAME

       glance-manage - Glance Management Utility

GLANCE MANAGEMENT UTILITY

Author OpenStack Glance Project Team

Contact
glance@lists.launchpad.net

Date 2025-04-02

Version
30.0.0

Manual section
1

Manual group
cloud computing

SYNOPSIS
glance-manage [options]

DESCRIPTION
glance-manage is a utility for managing and configuring a Glance installation. One important use of
glance-manage is to setup the database. To do this run:

glance-manage db_sync

Note: glance-manage commands can be run either like this:

glance-manage db sync

or with the db commands concatenated, like this:

glance-manage db_sync

COMMANDS
db This is the prefix for the commands below when used with a space rather than a _. For example "db
version".

db_version
This will print the current migration level of a glance database.

db_upgrade [VERSION]
This will take an existing database and upgrade it to the specified VERSION.

db_version_control
Place the database under migration control.

db_sync [VERSION]
Place an existing database under migration control and upgrade it to the specified VERSION.

db_expand
Run this command to expand the database as the first step of a rolling upgrade process.

db_migrate
Run this command to migrate the database as the second step of a rolling upgrade process.

db_contract
Run this command to contract the database as the last step of a rolling upgrade process.

db_export_metadefs [PATH | PREFIX]
Export the metadata definitions into json format. By default the definitions are exported to
/etc/glance/metadefs directory. Note: this command will overwrite existing files in the supplied
or default path.

db_load_metadefs [PATH]
Load the metadata definitions into glance database. By default the definitions are imported from
/etc/glance/metadefs directory.

db_unload_metadefs
Unload the metadata definitions. Clears the contents of all the glance db tables including
metadef_namespace_resource_types, metadef_tags, metadef_objects, metadef_resource_types,
metadef_namespaces and metadef_properties.

db_purge
Purge deleted rows older than a given age from glance db tables.

This command interprets the following options when it is invoked:

--max_rows
Purge deleted rows older than age in days (default value if not specified: 100)

--age_in_days
Limit number of records to delete (default value if not specified: 30 days)

WARNING: This function is useful primarily in test systems. We do not recommend its use in
production systems unless you have reviewed OpenStack Security Note OSSN-0075 and understand the
risk involved.

db_purge_images_table
Purge deleted rows older than a given age from images db tables.

This command interprets the following options when it is invoked:

--max_rows
Purge deleted rows older than age in days (default value if not specified: 100)

--age_in_days
Limit number of records to delete (default value if not specified: 30 days)

OPTIONS
General Options

-h, --help
Show the help message and exit

--version
Print the version number and exit

-v, --verbose
Print more verbose output

--noverbose
Disable verbose output

-d, --debug
Print debugging output (set logging level to DEBUG instead of default WARNING level)

--nodebug
Disable debugging output

--use-syslog
Use syslog for logging

--nouse-syslog
Disable the use of syslog for logging

--syslog-log-facility SYSLOG_LOG_FACILITY
syslog facility to receive log lines

--config-dir DIR
Path to a config directory to pull *.conf files from. This file set is sorted, to provide a
predictable parse order if individual options are over-ridden. The set is parsed after the file(s)
specified via previous --config-file, arguments hence over-ridden options in the directory take
precedence. This means that configuration from files in a specified config-dir will always take
precedence over configuration from files specified by --config-file, regardless to argument order.

--config-file PATH
Path to a config file to use. Multiple config files can be specified by using this flag multiple
times, for example, --config-file <file1> --config-file <file2>. Values in latter files take
precedence.

--log-config-append PATH --log-config PATH
The name of logging configuration file. It does not disable existing loggers, but just appends
specified logging configuration to any other existing logging options. Please see the Python
logging module documentation for details on logging configuration files. The log-config name for
this option is deprecated.

--log-format FORMAT
A logging.Formatter log message format string which may use any of the available logging.LogRecord
attributes. Default: None

--log-date-format DATE_FORMAT
Format string for %(asctime)s in log records. Default: None

--log-file PATH, --logfile PATH
(Optional) Name of log file to output to. If not set, logging will go to stdout.

--log-dir LOG_DIR, --logdir LOG_DIR
(Optional) The directory to keep log files in (will be prepended to --log-file)

AUTHOR

       OpenStack

COPYRIGHT

       2010-present, OpenStack Foundation.

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