Ashish Jain d0de5af957 Update documentation for glance-manage

Currently the documentation of glance-manage is missing the commands
to handle the glance metadata defnition. This patch provides details
on following commands:

db_load_metadefs
db_unload_metadefs
db_export_metadefs

Closes-Bug: #1414725

Change-Id: I90865831d38478f76e7379ca447ed99c17387710

2015-03-23 16:37:50 +00:00

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glance-manage

Glance Management Utility

Author: glance@lists.launchpad.net
Date: 2014-01-16
Copyright: OpenStack LLC
Version: 2014.1
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_downgrade <VERSION>

This will take an existing database and downgrade it to the specified VERSION.

db_version_control

Place the database under migration control.

db_sync <VERSION> <CURRENT_VERSION>

Place a database under migration control and upgrade, creating it first if necessary.

db_export_metadefs

Export the metadata definitions into json format. By default the definitions are exported to /etc/glance/metadefs directory.

db_load_metadefs

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

General Options

--sql_connection=CONN_STRING

A proper SQLAlchemy connection string as described here

CONFIGURATION

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-registry.conf and glance-api.conf.

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