Description of configuration options for common
Configuration option = Default value Description
[DEFAULT]
compute_api_class = cinder.compute.nova.API (StrOpt) The full class name of the compute API class to use
debug = False (BoolOpt) Print debugging output (set logging level to DEBUG instead of default WARNING level).
default_availability_zone = None (StrOpt) default availability zone to use when creating a new volume. If this is not set then we use the value from the storage_availability_zone option as the default availability_zone for new volumes.
default_log_levels = amqp=WARN, amqplib=WARN, boto=WARN, keystone=INFO, qpid=WARN, sqlalchemy=WARN, suds=INFO, iso8601=WARN (ListOpt) list of logger=LEVEL pairs
default_notification_level = INFO (StrOpt) Default notification level for outgoing notifications
default_publisher_id = None (StrOpt) Default publisher_id for outgoing notifications
default_volume_type = None (StrOpt) default volume type to use
disable_process_locking = False (BoolOpt) Whether to disable inter-process locks
enable_new_services = True (BoolOpt) Services to be added to the available pool on create
fatal_deprecations = False (BoolOpt) make deprecations fatal
fatal_exception_format_errors = False (BoolOpt) make exception message format errors fatal
host = oslo (StrOpt) Name of this node. This can be an opaque identifier. It is not necessarily a hostname, FQDN, or IP address.
iet_conf = /etc/iet/ietd.conf (StrOpt) IET configuration file
lio_initiator_iqns = (StrOpt) Comma-separated list of initiator IQNs allowed to connect to the iSCSI target. (From Nova compute nodes.)
lock_path = None (StrOpt) Directory to use for lock files. Default to a temp directory
log-config-append = None (StrOpt) 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.
log-date-format = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (StrOpt) Format string for %%(asctime)s in log records. Default: %(default)s
log-dir = None (StrOpt) (Optional) The base directory used for relative --log-file paths
log-file = None (StrOpt) (Optional) Name of log file to output to. If no default is set, logging will go to stdout.
log-format = None (StrOpt) DEPRECATED. A logging.Formatter log message format string which may use any of the available logging.LogRecord attributes. This option is deprecated. Please use logging_context_format_string and logging_default_format_string instead.
logging_context_format_string = %(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d %(levelname)s %(name)s [%(request_id)s %(user)s %(tenant)s] %(instance)s%(message)s (StrOpt) format string to use for log messages with context
logging_debug_format_suffix = %(funcName)s %(pathname)s:%(lineno)d (StrOpt) data to append to log format when level is DEBUG
logging_default_format_string = %(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d %(levelname)s %(name)s [-] %(instance)s%(message)s (StrOpt) format string to use for log messages without context
logging_exception_prefix = %(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(process)d TRACE %(name)s %(instance)s (StrOpt) prefix each line of exception output with this format
monkey_patch = False (BoolOpt) Enable monkey patching
monkey_patch_modules = (ListOpt) List of modules/decorators to monkey patch
my_ip = 10.0.0.1 (StrOpt) ip address of this host
no_snapshot_gb_quota = False (BoolOpt) Whether snapshots count against GigaByte quota
num_shell_tries = 3 (IntOpt) number of times to attempt to run flakey shell commands
periodic_fuzzy_delay = 60 (IntOpt) range of seconds to randomly delay when starting the periodic task scheduler to reduce stampeding. (Disable by setting to 0)
periodic_interval = 60 (IntOpt) seconds between running periodic tasks
policy_default_rule = default (StrOpt) Rule checked when requested rule is not found
policy_file = policy.json (StrOpt) JSON file representing policy
pybasedir = /usr/lib/python/site-packages (StrOpt) Directory where the cinder python module is installed
report_interval = 10 (IntOpt) seconds between nodes reporting state to datastore
reserved_percentage = 0 (IntOpt) The percentage of backend capacity is reserved
root_helper = sudo (StrOpt) Deprecated: command to use for running commands as root
rootwrap_config = /etc/cinder/rootwrap.conf (StrOpt) Path to the rootwrap configuration file to use for running commands as root
run_external_periodic_tasks = True (BoolOpt) Some periodic tasks can be run in a separate process. Should we run them here?
service_down_time = 60 (IntOpt) maximum time since last check-in for up service
sqlite_db = cinder.sqlite (StrOpt) the filename to use with sqlite
sqlite_synchronous = True (BoolOpt) If true, use synchronous mode for sqlite
ssl_ca_file = None (StrOpt) CA certificate file to use to verify connecting clients
ssl_cert_file = None (StrOpt) Certificate file to use when starting the server securely
ssl_key_file = None (StrOpt) Private key file to use when starting the server securely
state_path = $pybasedir (StrOpt) Top-level directory for maintaining cinder's state
storage_availability_zone = nova (StrOpt) availability zone of this node
syslog-log-facility = LOG_USER (StrOpt) syslog facility to receive log lines
tcp_keepidle = 600 (IntOpt) Sets the value of TCP_KEEPIDLE in seconds for each server socket. Not supported on OS X.
until_refresh = 0 (IntOpt) count of reservations until usage is refreshed
use-syslog = False (BoolOpt) Use syslog for logging.
use_forwarded_for = False (BoolOpt) Treat X-Forwarded-For as the canonical remote address. Only enable this if you have a sanitizing proxy.
use_stderr = True (BoolOpt) Log output to standard error
verbose = False (BoolOpt) Print more verbose output (set logging level to INFO instead of default WARNING level).
[database]
idle_timeout = 3600 (IntOpt) timeout before idle sql connections are reaped
retry_interval = 10 (IntOpt) interval between retries of opening a sql connection
use_tpool = False (BoolOpt) Enable the experimental use of thread pooling for all DB API calls
[matchmaker_redis]
host = 127.0.0.1 (StrOpt) Host to locate redis
password = None (StrOpt) Password for Redis server. (optional)
port = 6379 (IntOpt) Use this port to connect to redis host.
[rpc_notifier2]
topics = notifications (ListOpt) AMQP topic(s) used for OpenStack notifications