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glance-manage
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Glance Management Utility
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SYNOPSIS
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::

  glance-manage [options]

DESCRIPTION
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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
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``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.

OPTIONS
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**General Options**

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CONFIGURATION
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The following paths are searched for a ``glance-manage.conf`` file in the
following order:

* ``~/.glance``
* ``~/``
* ``/etc/glance``
* ``/etc``

All options set in ``glance-manage.conf`` override those set in
``glance-api.conf``.