traffic_ctl
Synopsis
traffic_ctl [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND [OPTIONS]
Description
traffic_ctl is used to display and manipulate configure a running Traffic Server. traffic_ctl includes a number of subcommands that control different aspects of Traffic Server:
- traffic_ctl alarm
Display and manipulate Traffic Server alarms
- traffic_ctl config
Manipulate and display configuration records
- traffic_ctl metric
Manipulate performance and status metrics
- traffic_ctl server
Stop, restart and examine the server
- traffic_ctl storage
Manipulate cache storage
- traffic_ctl plugin
Interact with plugins.
- traffic_ctl host
Manipulate host status. parents for now but will be expanded to origins.
To use traffic_ctl, traffic_manager needs to be running.
Options
- --debug
Enable debugging output.
- -V, --version
Print version information and exit.
Subcommands
traffic_ctl alarm
- list
List all alarm events that have not been acknowledged (cleared).
- clear
Clear (acknowledge) all current alarms.
- resolve ALARM [ALARM...]
Clear (acknowledge) an alarm event. The arguments are a specific alarm number (e.g. ‘’1’’), or an alarm string identifier (e.g. ‘’MGMT_ALARM_PROXY_CONFIG_ERROR’’).
traffic_ctl config
- defaults [--records]
Display the default values for all configuration records. The –records* flag has the same behavior as
traffic_ctl config get --records
.
- describe RECORD [RECORD...]
Display all the known information about a configuration record. This includes the current and default values, the data type, the record class and syntax checking expression.
- diff [--records]
Display configuration records that have non-default values. The –records* flag has the same behavior as
traffic_ctl config get --records
.
- get [--records] RECORD [RECORD...]
Display the current value of a configuration record.
- --records
If this flag is provided,
traffic_ctl config get
will emit results inrecords.config
format.
- match [--records] REGEX [REGEX...]
Display the current values of all configuration variables whose names match the given regular expression. The –records flag has the same behavior as
traffic_ctl config get --records
.
- reload
Initiate a Traffic Server configuration reload. Use this command to update the running configuration after any configuration file modification. If no configuration files have been modified since the previous configuration load, this command is a no-op.
The timestamp of the last reconfiguration event (in seconds since epoch) is published in the proxy.node.config.reconfigure_time metric.
- set RECORD VALUE
Set the named configuration record to the specified value. Refer to the
records.config
documentation for a list of the configuration variables you can specify. Note that this is not a synchronous operation.
- status
Display detailed status about the Traffic Server configuration system. This includes version information, whether the internal configuration store is current and whether any daemon processes should be restarted.
traffic_ctl metric
- get METRIC [METRIC...]
Display the current value of the specifies statistics.
- match REGEX [REGEX...]
Display the current values of all statistics whose names match the given regular expression.
- zero METRIC [METRIC...]
Reset the named statistics to zero.
traffic_ctl server
- restart
Shut down and immediately restart Traffic Server
- --drain
This option modifies the behavior of
traffic_ctl server restart
such that traffic_server is not shut down until the number of active client connections drops to the number given by theproxy.config.restart.active_client_threshold
configuration variable.
- --manager
The default behavior of
traffic_ctl server restart
is to restart traffic_server. If this option is specified, traffic_manager is also restarted.
- start
Start traffic_server if it is already running.
- --clear-cache
Clear the disk cache upon startup.
- --clear-hostdb
Clear the DNS resolver cache upon startup.
- status
Show the current proxy server status, indicating if we’re running or not.
- stop
Stop the running traffic_server process.
- backtrace
Show a full stack trace of all the traffic_server threads.
traffic_ctl storage
- offline PATH [PATH ...]
Mark a cache storage device as offline. The storage is identified by PATH which must match exactly a path specified in
storage.config
. This removes the storage from the cache and redirects requests that would have used this storage to other storage. This has exactly the same effect as a disk failure for that storage. This does not persist across restarts of the traffic_server process.
traffic_ctl plugin
- msg TAG DATA
Send a message to plugins. All plugins that have hooked the
TSLifecycleHookID::TS_LIFECYCLE_MSG_HOOK
will receive a callback for that hook. The TAG and DATA will be available to the plugin hook processing. It is expected that plugins will use TAG to select relevant messages and determine the format of the DATA. The DATA is optional and may not be available to consume, if not available then size will be 0 and the data will be NULL. Any extra passed value beside the tag and the optional data will be ignored. CheckTSPluginMsg
for more info.
traffic_ctl host
A stat to track status is created for each host. The name is the host fqdn with a prefix of “proxy.process.host_status”. The value of the stat is a string which is the serialized representation of the status. This contains the overall status and the status for each reason. The stats may be viewed using the traffic_ctl metric command or through the stats_over_http endpoint.
- --time count
Set the duration of an operation to
count
seconds. A value of0
means no duration, the condition persists until explicitly changed. The default is0
if an operation requires a time and none is provided by this option.
- --reason active | local | manual
Sets the reason for the operation.
active
Set the active health check reason.
local
Set the local health check reason.
manual
Set the administrative reason. This is the default reason if a reason is needed and not provided by this option.
Internally the reason can be
self_detect
ifproxy.config.http.parent_proxy.self_detect
is set to the value 2 (the default). This is used to prevent parent selection from creating a loop by selecting itself as the upstream by marking this reason as “down” in that case.Note
The up / down status values are independent, and a host is consider available if and only if all of the statuses are “up”.
- status HOSTNAME [HOSTNAME ...]
Get the current status of the specified hosts with respect to their use as targets for parent selection. This returns the same information as the per host stat.
- down HOSTNAME [HOSTNAME ...]
Marks the listed hosts as down so that they will not be chosen as a next hop parent. If
--time
is included the host is marked down for the specified number of seconds after which the host will automatically be marked up. A host is not marked up until all reason codes are cleared by marking up the host for the specified reason code.
- up HOSTNAME [HOSTNAME ...]
Marks the listed hosts as up so that they will be available for use as a next hop parent. Use
--reason
to mark the host reason code. The ‘self_detect’ is an internal reason code used by parent selection to mark down a parent when it is identified as itself andSupports
--reason
.
Examples
Mark down a host with traffic_ctl and view the associated host stats:
$ traffic_ctl host down cdn-cache-02.foo.com --reason manual
$ /opt/trafficserver/bin/traffic_ctl metric match host_status
proxy.process.host_status.cdn-cache-01.foo.com HOST_STATUS_DOWN,ACTIVE:UP:0:0,LOCAL:UP:0:0,MANUAL:DOWN:1556896844:0,SELF_DETECT:UP:0
proxy.process.host_status.cdn-cache-02.foo.com HOST_STATUS_UP,ACTIVE:UP:0:0,LOCAL:UP:0:0,MANUAL:UP:0:0,SELF_DETECT:UP:0
proxy.process.host_status.cdn-cache-origin-01.foo.com HOST_STATUS_UP,ACTIVE:UP:0:0,LOCAL:UP:0:0,MANUAL:UP:0:0,SELF_DETECT:UP:0
In the example above, ‘cdn-cache-01.foo.com’ is unavailable, HOST_STATUS_DOWN and was marked down for the manual reason, MANUAL:DOWN:1556896844:0, at the time indicated by the UNIX time stamp 1556896844. To make the host available, one would have to clear the manual reason using
$ traffic_ctl host up cdn-cache-01.foo.com --reason manual
Configure Traffic Server to insert Via
header in the response to
the client:
$ traffic_ctl config set proxy.config.http.insert_response_via_str 1
$ traffic_ctl config reload
See also
records.config(5), storage.config(5)